The National Occupational Health and Prevention Committee is chaired by the Vice-Chairman of the Conseil d’Orientation des Conditions de Travail and run by its General Secretary.
It comprises :
1° In respect of the college of social partners:
a) Five employee representatives, namely: one nominated by the Confédération générale du travail (CGT), one nominated by the Confédération française démocratique du travail (CFDT), one nominated by the Confédération générale du travail-Force ouvrière (CGT-FO), one nominated by the Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens (CFTC) and one nominated by the Confédération française de l’encadrement-Confédération générale des cadres (CFE-CGC) ;
b) Five employer representatives: three nominated by the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), one nominated by the Confédération des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (CPME) and one nominated by the Union des Entreprises de Proximité (U2P);
2° For the college of ministerial departments and national social security bodies:
a) The Director General of Labour or his representative ;
b) The Director of Financial, Social and Logistics Affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture or his representative;
c) The Director of Occupational Risks at the Caisse Nationale de l’Assurance Maladie or his representative;
d) The Director of the Caisse Centrale de la Mutualité Sociale Agricole or his representative.
The National Committee for Prevention and Health at Work draws up an annual work programme by consensus between its members, on the basis of a proposal drawn up by the Secretary General.
Depending on the topics on the agenda, an expert or a representative of a ministerial department on the ministerial college not sitting on the National Occupational Health and Safety Committee may be called upon in an advisory capacity by the General Secretary.
The members of the College of Social Partners may request that a subject be included on the agenda drawn up by the Secretary General.
The deliberations taken in application of 3° to 5° of article L. 4641-2-1 of the Labour Code are adopted by the members of the college of social partners mentioned in 1° of this article when the following cumulative conditions are met:
-they receive the favourable vote of one or more representative employee trade union organisations having obtained, in the elections taken into account for the measurement of the audience provided for in 3° of article L. 2122-9, at least 30% of the votes cast in favour of organisations recognised as representative at this level, whatever the number of voters, and are not opposed by members representing one or more representative employee trade union organisations having obtained a majority of the votes cast in favour of the same organisations at these same elections, whatever the number of voters;
they receive the favourable vote of at least one professional employers’ organisation and are not opposed by one or more professional employers’ organisations whose member companies employ more than 50% of all the employees of the companies belonging to the professional employers’ organisations recognised as representative at national and cross-industry level.