The professional prevention account is opened as soon as an employee has acquired rights under the conditions defined in this chapter. The rights built up in the account remain with the employee until they are liquidated or until he is admitted to retirement.
Exposure of a worker, after application of collective and individual protection measures, to one or more of the occupational risk factors mentioned in I of article L. 4163-1 above exposure thresholds defined by decree, recorded in the declaration provided for in the same article, gives entitlement to the acquisition of points in the professional prevention account.
A decree by the Conseil d’Etat sets out the procedures for entering points in the account. It defines the number of points to which simultaneous exposure to several occupational risk factors gives entitlement, depending on the number of factors to which the employee is exposed.