Compliance tools · Belgium

Loi relative au bien-être des travailleurs lors de l'exécution de leur travail

Moniteur belge / Belgisch Staatsblad 18 September 1996, numac 1996012650 · Belgium · Binding instrument

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A set of 28 working files that organise the Belgian law on the well-being of workers into open questions and dated compliance reports, with the statutory text carried verbatim.

This instrument reaches every employer in Belgium, together with the businesses whose activities it governs: construction firms and site operators, undertakings that handle asbestos or other hazardous work, temporary work agencies and user enterprises, and organisations that must set up a service for prevention and protection at work and a committee for prevention and protection at work. The working files walk through the duties these businesses owe their workers, from the general obligation to prevent harm through the specific rules on health and safety, psychosocial risks, violence and harassment, and the protection of workers' representatives.

The files are grouped by subject: general prevention duties, asbestos and risky work, health and safety at work, construction site safety, the recording system for temporary work, the prohibition of violence and harassment, psychosocial risk prevention and the procedures for psychosocial intervention, the organisation of the prevention service, the committee for prevention and protection at work, economic and financial information, reporting duties, and the protection of workers' representatives. Each file sets out the obligations as phases of open questions a business answers from its own records, and the statutory text is carried verbatim beside each duty.

The working files are served through a connector inside Claude, and nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed. The documents that come back are dated compliance reports the business keeps in its own file. The toolkit never gives advice and never presents a perspective; it carries what the authority wrote, organised.

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Which businesses does this law apply to?

The law applies to every employer in Belgium and to the activities it governs, including construction firms, site operators, undertakings that handle asbestos or carry out risky work, temporary work agencies and user enterprises. It also reaches the organisations that must set up a service for prevention and protection at work and a committee for prevention and protection at work. The working files organise the duties that follow for each of these businesses.

What does the toolkit contain?

The toolkit is a set of 28 working files that organise this instrument's obligations into phases of open questions a business answers from its own records. The statutory text is carried verbatim beside each duty. The files are grouped by subject, from general prevention through psychosocial risks to the protection of workers' representatives.

How are the working files delivered?

The working files are served through a connector inside Claude. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed. A business reaches them from within Claude and answers the open questions there.

What do the documents that come back look like?

The documents that come back are dated compliance reports the business keeps in its own file. Each report records the answers the business gave to the open questions in the working files. The business holds the report in its own records.

Does the toolkit tell a business what to do about a specific case?

The toolkit never gives advice and never presents a perspective; it carries what the authority wrote, organised. A business reads the statutory text beside each duty and answers the open questions from its own records. The dated compliance reports record those answers for the business's file.

Which subjects do the working files cover?

The files cover general prevention duties, asbestos and risky work, health and safety at work, construction site safety, the recording system for temporary work, violence and harassment, psychosocial risks and the procedures for psychosocial intervention, the prevention service, the committee for prevention and protection at work, economic and financial information, reporting duties, and the protection of workers' representatives.

How does a business answer the open questions?

A business answers the open questions from its own records, such as its prevention policy, its risk assessments and its internal procedures. The working files set the questions out in phases, so the business works through them in a settled order. The statutory text sits beside each duty for reference.

Does the toolkit cover psychosocial risks and violence at work?

The working files include the provisions on the prohibition of violence and harassment, on the prevention of psychosocial risks, on the designation of persons of trust, and on the procedures for psychosocial intervention. They also cover the information owed to the employer and the prevention measures that follow. Each subject is presented as open questions with the statutory text beside the duty.

Does the toolkit cover the committee for prevention and protection at work?

The working files cover the institution of the committee, its organisation, the remuneration and working time of its members, the economic and financial information it receives, and the protection of workers' representatives. The duties are set out as open questions a business answers from its own records. The statutory text is carried beside each duty.

What does a business keep after working through the files?

A business keeps the dated compliance reports that come back from the working files. Those reports record the answers given to the open questions and stay in the business's own file. The business can return to them as its records change.

Source: Moniteur belge / Belgisch Staatsblad (ejustice). Official text, free of copyright under CDE art. XI.172 § 2. Official reference: Moniteur belge / Belgisch Staatsblad 18 September 1996, numac 1996012650.

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