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Michèle PIETRUSZYNSKI: Legal
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Nathalie GUILLEMY: Lawyer, Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité pour la prévention des accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles (INRS - French National Institute for Research and Safety in Occupational Accident and Disease Prevention)
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Anne LE ROY: Lawyer, Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité pour la prévention des accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles (INRS - French National Institute for Research and Safety in Occupational Accident and Disease Prevention)
INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding the physical and mental integrity of people in the course of their professional activities is a necessity for good corporate management. It is a regulatory obligation for company managers, as well as for designers, manufacturers and distributors of work equipment and industrial installations.
Millions of people are affected, working in tens of thousands of different situations in hundreds of thousands of companies. Occupational risk prevention calls on all areas of scientific and technical knowledge. It represents a vast field, the complexity and multiplicity of which can make access difficult for the non-specialist. Without claiming to answer every question, this article brings together basic information, concepts and reference principles concerning the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.
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Occupational risk prevention: French legislation
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- Machine safety – Safety distances to prevent upper limbs from reaching danger zones. - NF EN 294 - 09-92
- Machine safety – Minimum distances to prevent the risk of crushing parts of the human body. - NF EN 349 - 09-93
- Machine safety – Rules...
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