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Jean-Claude VOISIN
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Jean-Pierre MOINEAU: ESTP engineers - French National Institute for Research and Safety (INRS)
INTRODUCTION
The construction sector is one of the most important in our economy, but with over 20% of workplace accidents and occupational illnesses and 7% of the workforce, it remains a high-risk sector, even if it has managed to more than halve the number of fatal accidents over the past twenty-five years.
All those involved in the construction process are concerned by occupational risk prevention: clients, project managers, safety coordinators, contractors (including subcontractors) and self-employed workers.
A general obligation to organize and coordinate prevention applies to each of these players, and first and foremost to the project owner and project management team in charge of designing the structure, selecting contractors, managing the work and planning subsequent interventions on the structure.
Each party involved in the construction process is also responsible for assessing occupational risks and defining the preventive measures to be implemented during work and maintenance.
This dossier presents the building and civil engineering sector and its specific features, and shows how we can move from prevention of work in the company to prevention of joint work on the worksite.
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1. Features
Construction sales account for roughly one-twelfth of gross domestic product.
In 2003, sales in France amounted to 127.2 billion euros: 97.9 billion euros for the building industry, 29.3 billion euros for public works. Within this total, maintenance work accounted for almost half of building activity and almost a third of public works activity (source: DAEI).
With a workforce...
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Standardization
French Standards Association (AFNOR)
- Marchés privés. Cahiers types. Cahier des clauses administratives générales applicables aux travaux de bâtiment faisant l'objet de marchés privés - NF P 03-001 - déc. 2000
Organizations
FFB French Building Federation
FNTP Fédération nationale des travaux publics
CAPEB Confédération de l'artisanat et des petites entreprises du bâtiment (Confederation of building trades...
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