Chapter I: Employer's obligations

The employer shall transcribe and update in a single document the results of the assessment of risks to the health and safety of workers which it carries out in application of article L. 4121-3. This assessment includes an inventory of the risks identified in each work unit of the company or establishment, including those related to thermal environments.

The employer shall record, in an appendix to the single document: 1° Collective data useful for assessing individual exposure to the risk factors mentioned in Article L. 4161-1 in order to facilitate the declaration referred to in this article, where appropriate on the basis of the identification of jobs, professions or work situations included in an extended collective agreement or an approved branch professional reference document referred to in article…

The Single Occupational Risk Assessment Document must be updated: 1° At least once a year in companies with at least eleven employees; 2° Whenever a decision is taken to make any major change to health and safety conditions or working conditions; 3° When additional information relevant to risk assessment is brought to the employer’s attention. The annual programme for the prevention of occupational risks and the improvement of working conditions…

In establishments with a social and economic committee, the single occupational risk assessment document is used to draw up the annual report provided for in 1° of Article L. 2312-27.

The single occupational risk assessment document and its earlier versions are kept available for a period of 40 years from the date of their preparation: 1° Workers and former workers for the versions in force during their period of activity in the company. Communication of versions of the single document prior to that in force on the date of the request may be limited to elements relating to the applicant’s…