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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Special provisions for certain activities

Article R4424-8

In departments receiving patients or in premises where there are animals likely to be contaminated by group 3 or 4 biological agents, an order by the ministers for labour, agriculture and health defin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Control of occupational exposure limit values

Article R4412-80

Measurements and technical checks carried out in application of this paragraph must comply with the procedures and methods laid down in application of Article R. 4412-151.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Personal protection

Article R4434-8

Individual hearing protectors are chosen so as to eliminate the risk to hearing or to reduce it as much as possible. They are chosen after consultation with the workers concerned, the occupational phy…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Emergency provisions

Article R4411-84

When a regulation or order issued in application of articles L. 4411-1 and R. 4411-83 has been issued, manufacturers, importers or sellers must take all necessary steps to inform users.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Worker information and training

Article R4412-86

If the results of the risk assessment reveal a risk to workers' health or safety, the employer shall make available to exposed workers and to the Social and Economic Committee appropriate information…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Worker information and training

Article R4412-89

Workers are informed of the potentially harmful effects of exposure to chemical substances on fertility, on the embryo in particular at the start of pregnancy, on the foetus and on the child in the ev…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Risk assessment

Article R4412-8

Any new activity involving hazardous chemical agents may only be undertaken once a risk assessment has been carried out and appropriate preventive measures implemented.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Measures in the event of accidents or incidents

Article R4412-85

In order to maintain or restore health conditions in the affected area, the agents must be eliminated in such a way as not to create new risks for workers or the environment of the establishment.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exhibitions subject to authorisation

Article R4451-89

…l request authorisation to exceed them from the labour inspection officer referred to in Article L. 8112-1. II.-The employer shall demonstrate that there is no possible alternative to exceeding the va…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific procedures applicable to occupational health professionals, occupational health and prevention services and occupational health services in agriculture, providing enhanced individual monitoring of a worker exposed to ionising radiation

Article R4451-88

…ragraph of article L. 1251-22, the reinforced individual monitoring provided for in article R. 4451-82 is carried out, with regard to the temporary employee, by the user undertaking defined in 1° of a…

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