What are the obligations in business to ensure public safety?
In a company, safety is among the measures imposed on the employer by the Labor Code. It must apply to all employees, whatever their function and status, as well as to any foreign person present on the premises.
Golden rules and sanctions
The Labor Code has established a list of nine principles HE Tuber brought together in article L 4121-2 from which the employer and employees cannot escape.
These nine principles are:
Avoid risks
Assess unavoidable risks
Combating risks at the source
Adapting work to people
Take technical developments into account
Replace what is dangerous with what is not or what is less dangerous
Plan for prevention
Take collective protection measures
Give the necessary instructions to employees
Failure to comply with these rules entails civil or even criminal liability on the part of the employer . Likewise, an employee who does not observe the safety instructions announced by the company's management is exposed to disciplinary sanctions or dismissal for serious misconduct .
Assess and train
Concretely, the employer will have to measure the level of risk for each workstation. This assessment gives rise to a DUERP (single professional risk assessment document), mandatory in all companies .
It makes it possible to carry out risk prevention actions , through training. This is for example the case for personnel exposed to chemical substances, or who occupy a workstation at height. It also takes into account the arduousness of the work when the function performed requires, in particular, noise or heavy loads.
These training courses are primarily aimed at newly recruited staff, temporary workers, employees who change roles or who return to their activities after sick leave.
The risk factors, the instructions given and the actions taken to ensure public safety are recorded in internal regulations , mandatory for any company with 50 employees or more.
This document must be brought to the attention of employees and updated at least once a year.
The essential equipment
Failing to be able to eliminate them, the employer will endeavor to limit the scope of the risks to which employees are exposed. In fact , staff safety will be based on a training program, but also on the provision of essential equipment when the level of risk is particularly high.
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Collective equipment, when insufficient, is supplemented by PPE (personal protective equipment) depending on the level of dangers encountered, and whatever their nature (electrical, mechanical, thermal, chemical, sound, etc.).
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Whether minimal or fatal, danger is present in every business and the employer must face this risk. With the help of Signals.fr , this mission is greatly facilitated.
