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Showing 41214130 of 58651 articles for Art. Décret 2002-120 du 30-1-2002

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Warning and signalling systems

Article R4324-17

Where operators have the possibility of choosing and adjusting the technical operating characteristics of work equipment, the latter shall include all the information necessary for these operations to…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Installation of work equipment

Article R4323-12

Passageways and aisles where workers can move between work equipment must be at least 80 centimetres wide. The profile and condition of the floor in these passageways and walkways must allow safe move…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Insulation and energy dissipation

Article R4324-19

The separation of work equipment from its energy supply sources is achieved by the implementation of suitable means to enable operators working in hazardous areas to ensure this separation.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Principles and means of prevention

Article R4412-108

In order to reduce to the lowest level technically possible the duration and level of exposure of workers and to guarantee the absence of pollution of the buildings, equipment, structures, installatio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 9: Protection of the site environment

Article R4412-124

If the threshold set by article R. 1334-29-3 of the Public Health Code is exceeded in the buildings, equipment, installations or structures in which or in the environment of which the operation is car…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Lead and its compounds

Article R4412-157

The employer must ensure that exposed workers do not enter the second changing room until they have left their street clothes in the first, and that they do not enter the second changing room until th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Pathology monitoring

Article R4426-12

The occupational physician is informed by the employer of the deaths and absences due to illness of workers exposed to pathogenic biological agents, when these absences exceed the durations set by joi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Exposure limit values

Article R4443-1

A worker's daily exposure to mechanical vibrations, referred to an eight-hour reference period, may not exceed the following exposure limit values: 1° 5 m/s2 for vibrations transmitted to the hands an…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application

Article R4451-1

…his chapter apply whenever workers, including the self-employed, are likely to be exposed to a risk due to ionising radiation of natural or artificial origin. They apply in particular to 1° to the man…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Preventive measures and resources

Article R4412-16

…agent is not possible in view of the nature of the activity and the risk assessment, the risk is reduced to a minimum by implementing, in order of priority, the following measures: 1° Design of work…

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