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CSC-BI Service Formation 1

Health and Safety in Belgium

Construction


ABC of the law “Well-being at work”


What is meant by well-being?

• Safety at work

• Protection of the workers’ health at work

• Psychosocial pressure caused by work

• Ergonomics

• Hygiene at work

• Embellishment of the workplaces

• Moral and social harassment and violence

• Environmental measures taken by the company


• WORKERS– otherwise than under employment contract– vocational training– articles of apprenticeship– trainees– pupils and students

• EMPLOYERS

This legislation is meant for whom?


Responsabilities of the parties involved

• Employers : – 1st responsible of « Well-being at work » (accident, ill)– He must scan his company to see what and where are the

risks + plan the needed mesures to prevent risks and to protect the workers (Global Plan of Prevention = GPP)

– He must applicate the GPP and take all needed mesures

• Workers :– By his behaviour, he can not deliberately be dangereous

for him and for the others workers

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Prevention strategy

Damage repair

ESPPISPP

Committee PP or Shop stewards’ committee

Employer

Hierarchy

Personnel

Personal protection

Collective protection

Information, instructions,

training

Assessment ofremaining risks

Elimination or limitation of risks

Implementation of regulation

Determination of risks

External services:

Inspection servicesESTC

Fund industrial accidentsWelfare fundFire brigade

Insurance companyInformation

Documentation


Global plan of prevention

• What does it say?

– Results of the risk assessment– Prevention measures to be taken– Goals to achieve with priority– Actions to be taken in order to achieve goals


The annual plan of action

• What does it say?

– The goals to be achieved with priority during the next working year

– The means and the methods necessary to achieve the goals

– The assignments, duties and means of the persons involved

– The adjustments to be made to the global plan of prevention


How to do that ?

• Help of experts in « Well-being » and consultation of the workersService PP composed of

Internal Service PP (Who inside the company can help to manage the PP ?)

External Service PP (The help which does not exist inside the company (agreed services)

All the aspects of Well-being must be managed by one of these two services (ISPP –ESPP)

Role of the services: risks assessment, advice and planning to reduce the risks

Responsability ???


Internal service PP: composition

• Each employer has an internal service PP• Multidisciplinary approach• Number of obligatory internal and external tasks• A prevention advisor safety at work must always be

present• If internal medical surveillance: a distinct department

medical surveillance with a prevention advisor (occupational health specialist) at the head of it

• if necessary, administrative staff and medical relief workers


The external service PP: structure and composition

• Division risk control:– prevention advisors for the 5 disciplines;– support staff;– work under the responsibility of an engineer.

• Division medical surveillance:– prevention advisors (occupational health specialists);– paramedical and administrative staff.


Role of prevention advisor

• Advise the employer on the best « well-being » in the company

• Analyse the risks at work and during working hours

• Help to plan the GPP and APP

• Search for solutions to eliminate or reduce risks

• See to the application of the decided mesures

• Conduct the CPPW

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Which prevention advisor ? 4 categories


What is the CPPW ?

• Joint consultative body at company level

• Employer representatives

• Workers’ representatives

• Chairman: employer

• Secretary: prevention advisor of the internal service PP

• Any other prevention advisors of the internal and external service PP


Meetings of the CPPW

• At least once a month in the company (technical operating unit or TOU)

• Meeting time = working time• Agenda • Summons• Minutes• Taking decisionsRight to preliminary meeting• Right to invite experts• Replacement of a member of the CPPW• Information to the personnel• By-laws


Competences of the CPPW

• Basic competences– General Health and Safety Regulation (ARAB-RGPT) or

CODEX– Task for the CPPW– Obligation of secrecy

• Prevention policy– Tracing of risks– Measures for the promotion of prevention

• Specific tasks– Working environment– Internal service PP– External service PP– Environment– …


Information and tools

• Information– Monthly information– Yearly information– Occasional information– Documentation

• Brochures– External sources of information


Building sector


Principle

• As in the other sectors (Law of « Well-being »)

• But problems of coordination between the different companies which work on the same building site

law « coordination »

New actors : coordinators


Coordination : Historic

• 1992: European Directive « Temporary or Mobile Construction sites… »

• 4/8/96: Law on Well-being

• 25/1/01: Royal decree on Temporary or Mobile Construction sites… »

• Si 1 seul entrepreneur règles de sécurité propres à tout chantier uniquement (PAS DE COORDINATION OBLIGATOIRE)

• Si plus d’1 entrepreneur travaillant simultanément ou successivement règles de sécurité propres à tout chantier

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OBLIGATION de faire de la CCORDINATION

• If only 1 company

only safety regulations applicable to any building site (No obligation of coordination)

• If more than 1 company working simultaneously or successively

safety regulations applicable to any building site

+ Coordination is obligatory

When is coordination obligatory ?


To what does coordination refer to ?

Project Realization Later intervention

Building project


Before the realization of the building project,

as from the draft project

• Designation of a coordinator-project,

• Preliminary notification,

• Elaboration of the plan of safety-health (PSH)


During the realization of the project

– Designation of a coordinator-realization, – Setting-up of the coordination structure– Elaboration of the coordination journal (CJ)

During later intervention

– Consultation and adaptation of the FLI (File of later interventions)


Coordination instruments

• Plan of Safety and Health (PSH)

• Coordination Journal (CJ)

• File of later intervention (FLI)

• Coordination structure (SC)

• Preliminary notification (PN)

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