Posted By Joy Tutty As a Safety Consultant for my company I have been asked by our French group to be the support for our French safety Rep. Does anyone know where I can obtain copies of the French version of the 6 pack translated into English.

Posted By Paul Huber Joy, In brief no such documents exist. As you know the "6 pack" was derived from the EU directives. The directives largely incorporated into EU law what was already law in France and Germany. I am not aware of any new french law developed to meet the directives, they simply modified (or not) their existing laws. The French do not seem to translate their documents (but then again neither do we). For information the German government is in the process of producing English versions of some of their EHS laws and regulations, etc. If you approach the problem from the perspective of preventing accidents and ill health then it is safe to assume that in general most of what is good practice here would be good practice in France. There are however many legal pitfalls as French H&S law is very closely connected to French labour laws. This means that the groups like works councils, etc have a high status. There are many other stricter requiremetns in France eg: the requirement for an Occupational Health Nurse for sites with more than 500 employees. I would suggest you "adopt" a good friend who either is French or is familiar with the French system. I hope this is of some help. If you need more information let me know. Paul

Posted By Merv Newman Joy, one of the previous replies was correct - there is no French 6-pack. Different bits of european legislation have been implemented in france at different speeds. However, I work mainly in france as a SHE consultant and am reasonably familiar with the safety legislation and the "code de travail" If I can offer any help, please send an email to insafety@fc-net.fr Best regards Merv Newman

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Posted By Philip McAleenan Ken, Je ne puis pas voir la conversion de devise sur le site, mais ce lien fera cela pour vous. http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&s=VND&t=CLP (currency converter) I also see that Babelfish now translates Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Philip

Posted By Jay Joshi Just because we have implemented 6 EC directives as the so called "6 pack" does not mean that other EC countries have followed an identical approach. Each EC country has its own system. For example, the Republic of Ireland has implemented these 6 directives plus our equivalent of RIDDOR, FIRST AID, EAWR (to an extent)into a single set of regulations called "SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE AT WORK (GENERAL APPLICATION) REGULATIONS, 1993-as amended. The best place for to start with is the European agency website and go to the focal point of the relevant country. Some have information in English, albeit limited.Then use one of the translation software. For non-EC countries, especially those not on the European agency website, the ILO SafeWork website is a good resource. It has the LEGOSH database that has abstracts of individual country Occupational Health & Safety legislation. The disadvantage of this is that the database is only as good as the information on it--alas, some countries have not provided the full information. As a last resort, you can contact the CIS centre for the country concerned and request them for details--but this can be time consuming. Details of CIS centres can be accesed thro' the HSE or ILO Safework websites.