Subsection 1: Designation of external companies and their representatives.

In order to extend the composition of the user undertaking’s health, safety and working conditions committee to include representation from external undertakings, in application of article L. 4523-11, it is the responsibility of: 1° The head of the user undertaking’s establishment to identify the external undertakings which meet the criteria defined in article R. 4523-6 and to select from among these the undertakings which are to appoint one or more…

The identification and selection of external companies by the user company is based on the following three cumulative criteria: 1° The nature of the particular risks associated with the work and likely to affect the safety of the workers present in or near the installation, which is the overriding criterion; 2° The number of employees working or due to work, expressed as an average number of men per day present…

The head of the user undertaking establishment shall rank the list of external undertakings meeting the criteria defined in Article R. 4523-6 in order of relevance. He shall mention the companies he intends to select and, for each of them, its representation either by one or more employees, or by a management representative, or by a combination of employees and management. The total number of employee representatives from external companies…

The head of the user undertaking communicates this list to the social and economic committee, together with the information justifying the composition chosen with regard to the criteria set out in article R. 4523-6. After a period of at least thirty days and at most sixty days following this communication, the social and economic committee gives its opinion on the list and the representation mentioned in article R. 4523-7.

Within fifteen days of the Social and Economic Committee being consulted, the head of the user company establishment: 1° Informs the heads of the external companies appearing on the list referred to in Article R. 4523-7 of the opinion of the Social and Economic Committee provided for in Article R. 4523-8 and consults them before drawing up the list of outside undertakings called upon to appoint a representative of their…

Within thirty days of the decision to select the external companies being sent, the head of each external company selected must: 1° Organise the appointment of representatives of the employees or, as the case may be, of the management of his company to the extended health, safety and working conditions committee of the user company, in accordance with the procedures laid down in article R. 4523-11; 2° Send the names…

The representatives of the employees of the external undertakings are appointed from among those who have worked regularly on or near the user undertaking’s installation during the previous twelve months or from among those who are due to work there regularly during the next twelve months. They are appointed by the social and economic committee set up in their establishment. If there is no social and economic committee, the employee…

The head of the user undertaking shall, at the request of the labour inspector, provide the latter with the names of the representatives of the external undertakings designated in accordance with the procedures laid down in article R. 4523-11.

The head of the user undertaking posts the list of the names of the representatives of the external undertakings on the extended health, safety and working conditions committee in the same place as that reserved for the information mentioned in article R. 4514-5. He sends this list, which must be updated at least every two years in accordance with the procedures laid down in articles R. 4523-7 to R. 4523-12,…