Specific requirements, adopted pursuant to 3° of Article L. 4111-6, prohibit or restrict, where applicable, the use of recycling for certain categories of substances or categories of premises.
Recycling installations include a monitoring system to detect faults in the purification devices. In the event of a fault, the necessary measures are taken by the employer to maintain compliance with the occupational exposure limit values defined in articles R. 4222-10 and R. 4412-149, if necessary by stopping recycling.
If the air is recycled, the conditions of recycling are brought to the attention of the works doctor and the members of the social and economic committee. These people are also consulted about any new installation or any change in recycling conditions.
The atmosphere in work premises and their outbuildings must be kept free at all times from any fumes from sewers, pits, cesspools or any other source of infection.
In establishments discharging wastewater or wash water into a public or private sewer, any connection between the sewer and the establishment is equipped with a hydraulic interceptor. This hydraulic interceptor must be cleaned frequently and its water level maintained at all times.
The employer shall maintain all the installations referred to in this chapter in good working order and shall regularly inspect them.
The employer shall indicate in a set of instructions for use the arrangements made for ventilation and shall lay down the measures to be taken in the event of a breakdown in the installations. These instructions are drawn up taking account, where appropriate, of the information in the instructions supplied by the project owner in accordance with article R. 4212-7. It is subject to the opinion of the occupational physician…
Joint decrees by the Ministers of Labour and Agriculture set: 1° The methods for measuring concentration, flow rate, capture, filtration and purification efficiency; 2° The nature and frequency of inspections of the installations mentioned in this chapter.
In wells, gas pipes, flues, smoke ducts, tanks, reservoirs, cisterns, pits, galleries and in places where it is not possible to ensure permanent compliance with the provisions of this chapter, work shall not be undertaken until it has been ascertained that there is no risk to the health and safety of workers and, where appropriate, the atmosphere has been purified and the contents emptied.
While the work is being carried out, ventilation is provided in accordance with the requirements of article R. 4222-6 or R. 4222-11, depending on whether the work is being carried out in a non-specific pollution area or a specific pollution area, in such a way as to maintain a healthy atmosphere and ensure that the air is constantly swept, without prejudice, in the case of underground work, to the provisions…
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