Composition of the company’s health, safety and working conditions committee
Every company’s manager employing 50 or more people is required to establish a health, safety and working conditions committee. During the committee’s meetings, the employer and workers discuss about health and safety at work issues. In enterprises employing less than 50 people, the staff representatives performs the functions normally assigned to the health, safety and working conditions committee.
The establishment of the health, safety and working conditionsCommittee
Composition of the health, safety and working conditions committee
Who can be elected in health, safety and working conditions committee ?
Representation of senior executives within health, safety and working conditions committee
The Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee is called in French CHSCT, Comité d’Hygiène, de Sécurité et des Conditions de Travail).
The establishment of the health, safety and working conditionsCommittee
The French Labour Code, article L. 4111-1 , draw up a list of the enterprises concerned by a health, safety and working conditions committee.
Composition of the health, safety and working conditions committee
The committee is made of :
- the person responsible within the company, or his representative which presides the meeting,
- a delegation of staff (3 to 9 employees according to number of staff in the company ), for a term of 2 years ( according to the French Labour Code : article R. 4613-5),
- members with only advisory capacity,
- the occupationnal physician,
- any expert invited by the health, safety and working conditions committee,
- the labour inspector
- and the representative of prevention service of the Regional health insurance funds, called in French CARSAT, Caisse d’Assurance Retraite et de SAnté au Travail),
All these members are invited to every meeting..
In enterprises employing less than 50 people, the staff representatives performs the functions normally assigned to the health, safety and working conditions committee.
Who can be elected in health, safety and working conditions committee ?
Everybody who is actually employed by the company can be elected to the health, safety and working conditions committee.
Representation of senior executives within health, safety and working conditions committee
The French Labour Code (article R.4613-1) let some seats for supervisors and executives according to number of employees in the company.
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