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Article R4461-11 of the French Labour Code

When the head of the user company calls on an external company or a self-employed worker, he shall ensure the general coordination of the prevention measures he takes and those taken by the head of the external company or the self-employed worker, in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 4511-1 et seq. He shall pass on the specific instructions applicable to the establishment in terms of hyperbaric risk prevention…

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Article R4461-13 of the French Labour Code

On the site of intervention or hyperbaric work, for each intervention for work or other purposes, the employer draws up a safety sheet on which he indicates : 1° The date and place of the intervention or work; 2° The identity of the workers concerned as well as their function and, in the case of self-employed workers or employees of an external company, the identification of the latter; 3° The…

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Article R4461-13-1 of the French Labour Code

In order to ensure the traceability of any exposure to the risks inherent in the work carried out under the conditions mentioned in Article R. 4461-1, the employer shall keep the original of the safety sheet and provide each worker who took part in the work with a copy of this sheet. The employer shall forward to the occupational health service, at the latest on the occasion of the visits…

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Article R4461-14 of the French Labour Code

With the exception of the breath-holding interventions mentioned in Article R. 4461-42, interventions and work in hyperbaric environments are performed while breathing air, another gas mixture or pure oxygen under the conditions set out in this sub-section.

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Article R4461-17 of the French Labour Code

Without prejudice to the occupational exposure limit values laid down in articles R. 4222-10, R. 4412-149 and R. 4412-150, the air or mixtures breathed during work must have the following characteristics: 1° In the case of carbon dioxide, a partial pressure of less than 10 hectopascals ; 2° In the case of carbon monoxide, a partial pressure of less than 0.05 hectopascals; 3° In the case of water vapour, for…

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Article R4461-19 of the French Labour Code

The partial pressure of oxygen in a breathed mixture must not : I. – Be less than 160 hectopascals and, in a hyperbaric work chamber, be greater than 25 per cent of the absolute pressure. II – Exceed the following values: 1° During periods of physical activity, outside the compression and decompression phases and for continuous periods of exposure not exceeding 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 hours respectively: 1,600…

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