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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Market surveillance

Article L4314-2

A safeguard procedure is organised which allows : 1° Either to prevent work equipment or means of protection that do not comply with safety obligations and all or some of the technical rules that must…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific health and safety protection plan.

Article L4532-9

…ation plan, each company, including sub-contracting companies, called upon to intervene at any time during the work, draws up a specific health and safety protection plan before the work begins. This…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Implementing provisions.

Article L4622-17

Decrees will determine the conditions for the organisation and operation of occupational health and prevention services, as well as adaptations to these conditions in the health services of health, so…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment and conditions of practice.

Article L4623-3

The occupational health physician is a physician who is, as far as possible, employed on a full-time basis and who does not practise general practice medicine. This article does not apply to the corre…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Conseil d'orientation des conditions de travail (Working Conditions Advisory Council)

Article L4641-1

The Conseil d'Orientation des Conditions de Travail (Working Conditions Advisory Council) reports to the Minister for Labour. It is responsible for the following matters relating to health and safety…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General measures and implementing provisions.

Article L4411-2

…determine the measures for implementing this chapter and may, in particular, organise special procedures where there is an urgent need to suspend the marketing or use of dangerous substances and mixt…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Coordination of prevention.

Article L4522-2

…yed workers, practical and appropriate training in the particular risks that their work may present due to its nature or the proximity of the classified installation, before the start of their first i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Special fire and rescue provisions.

Article L4525-1

Without prejudice to the application of the other measures provided for in this Code relating to the prevention of fires and explosions, appropriate human and material resources for prevention, fire-f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Health and safety coordination and coordinator.

Article L4532-7

For building or civil engineering operations undertaken by a private individual for his personal use, that of his spouse, partner in a civil solidarity pact, cohabitee or his ascendants or descendants…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application.

Article L4621-3

…ice. They benefit from a specific range of services relating to occupational risk prevention, individual monitoring and prevention of occupational exclusion. The terms of application of this article s…

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