1. Zaupanje v usposobljenost.

2. Accreditation: a tool to overcome the challenges of our time in construction and the built environment
Sébastien LABORDE - Cofrac

3. Worker safety on sites Health & safety protection coordination
Noise exposure measurements
Lifting equipments verification: from placing on the market to common use
Safe driving aptitude certificate (CACES®)

4. Cofrac, an important player for worker protection in France

5. Role of the SPS coordinator
Worker safety on sites
Health and safety protection coordination
Role of the SPS coordinator
Identify and prevent work-related risks inherent to co-working and subcontracting on the building site
Provide for safety and security of workers and ensure the good organisation on the site in line with the budget and contractuals deadlines
Anticipate and optimize future building maintenance

6. Certification objectives
Worker safety on sites
Health and safety protection coordination
Scheme issues
Ensure appropriate and competent interventions
Improve level and quality of training provided to CSPS
To date, over 3,500 CSPS hold a competence certificate
Certification objectives
Ensure the quality of training provided and the evaluation of CSPS competences, regarding requirements

7. Worker safety on sites Health and safety protection coordination
Accreditation objectives
Ensure
An homogeneous level of control performed from the CB
An independant control, performed with competence, and in compliance with rules defined by the regulatory authority (French Directorate-General of Work)
That the CSPS mission will be effective, for health and safety of workers

8. Worker safety on site
Lifting equipment verification: from placing on the market to common use
Placing on the market governed by a European directive
EC design examination before mass production
Carried out by a notified body already accredited

9. Worker safety on site
Lifting equipment verification: from placing on the market to common use
In compliance with safety and maintenance rules to ensure that the equipments remain in conformity
Periodic verifications based on French regulatory obligations
Carried out by competent and qualified inspectors
Accreditation on a voluntary basis guarantee the competences

10. Worker safety on site
Lifting equipment verification: from placing on the market to common use
Failure to respect regulatory obligations or following
an accident
Conformity verifications at the request of the labour
inspector
Carried out by accredited inspection bodies

11. Worker safety on site
Lifting equipment verification: from placing on the market to common use
Benefits of accreditation:
Appropriate response to health and safety workers issues
Usable in a voluntary or a mandatory framework
Guarantee of CABs competence
Improvement of public authorities and operators confidence, in compliance with regulatory obligations

12. Worker safety on sites Safe driving aptitude certificate (CACES®)
Used to validate driver’s knowledge and know-how for driving safety of:
Cranes
Self-propelled industrial truck
Mobile elevating work platforms
Construction equipments (excavator, drill, …)
An important part for the employer to deliver the driving autorisation

13. Certification objectives
Worker safety on sites
Safe driving aptitude certificate (CACES®)
Scheme issues
Verify the reliability of certificates by validating the training required by French labour code
147,816 CACES® certificates delivered in 2016 for construction equipments (including 35,523 CACES® for cranes)
Certification objectives
Ensure that bodies responsible for delivering CACES® set up the necessary organisation for carrying out tests according to preventers’recommandations

14. Worker safety on sites Safe driving aptitude certificate (CACES®)
Accreditation objectives
Ensure that tester bodies for CACES ® are controlled:
By competent and independent assessors
On the all stages of the assessment laid down by the frame of reference
Taking into account the complaints received by the different players in the scheme
 Accreditation ensure strengh of the system, which is necessary regarding accident risks incurred

15. Worker safety on sites Noise exposure measurement
Regulatory imposes obligations to the employer to:
Determine the risks employees are exposed
Decide appropriate preventive measures
Evaluate the risks that remain
Implement protective measures for exposed workers
That employees encounters while on the job

16. Worker safety on sites Noise exposure measurement
Accreditation is a tool to support public policies
Accreditation is mandatory in case of formal notice of employers by labour inspectorate
Agreement with the General Labor Directorate :
Definition of specific requirements to be specified by laboratories
Harmonisation of assessors with the cooperation of INRS and DGT (General Labor Directorate)
Biannual follow-up meetings DGT/Cofrac
That employees encounters while on the job

17. Energy transition: from material to building
Hybrid heater performances
Certification of building materials
Energy performance labels

18. Accreditation: a guarantee of improving
energy performance

19. Energy transition: from material to building
Energy transition: from material to building Hybrid heater performances
Accreditation benefit
Hybrid system = innovative concept for which there is no recognized standard
= system combining several devices, each of them being the subject of standard
To know how to perform testing on different type of devices
To know how to perform them on a specify hybrid device
ACCREDITATION WITH A FLEXIBLE SCOPE

20. Energy transition: from material to building
Energy transition: from material to building Hybrid heater performances
Accreditation with a flexible scope allows:
To recognize the competence of laboratories to implement testing programs on innovative products
To confirm the performance expectations
 help to have confidence in technological innovation

21. Energy transition: from material to building
Certification of building materials
Relevant products
Building materials (glazing, insulator, concrete…)
Evaluated criteria by the certification body
Thermal resistance, thermal conductivity, water behaviour, mechanical behaviour, …
Issues
Technical quality of materials, contributing to energy efficiency of buildings
Market opening for manufacturers (products involved to obtain an energy efficiency building label )

22. Energy transition: from material to building
Certification of building materials
Why certification?
The certificate is the demonstration of product compliance with quality criteria and provides confirmation of performance expectations as claimed by the manufacturer
Accreditation
Ensures the transparency of the market place: final control to guarantee that the certified products deliver performance expectations
Contributes to a real improvement of buildings energy performance
Ensures that controls are carried out according to the same criteria and methods for all manufacturer of certified materials

23. Energy transition: from material to building
Energy performance labels
Various labels related to
All types of buildings (housing, tertiary building, industrial building…) under construction or renovation
Issues
Energy savings
Keep comfortable living conditions and ensure in-door air quality
Tax and financial advantages
HPE, BBC, H&E, E+C-, bio-sourced building…

24. Energy transition: from material to building
Energy performance labels
Why certification?
Criteria on programming, conception, insulation, thermal bridges, glazing, ventilation, air permeability, heating, hot water heating, building construction…
Checked by an independant third-party body
Certification guarantees the final outcome of the whole operations
Accreditation Objectives
Ensure that the controls are actually executed in totality

25. Substainable cities / Smart cities
Cableway installations designed to carry persons
Charging infrastructures for electric vehicles
Urban air quality

26. Accreditation: a tool to support initiatives
for susbstainable cities

27. Substainable cities / Smart cities
Cableway installations designed to carry persons
Safety objectives set by European regulation for manufacturing and selling safety components
Evaluation of the conformity for the EC marking by a notified body
Accreditation on a mandatory basis to
guarantee impartiality and competence

28. Substainable cities / Smart cities
Charging infrastructures for electric vehicles
Issue and functioning of the scheme
Development of clean transports
Objective from 15,000 recharging point in 2015 to 100,000 in 2020
Safe and reliable charging infrastructures
Mandatory since mid-2017, application of a European Directive

29. Substainable cities / Smart cities
Charging infrastructures for electric vehicles
Qualification of firms
A simple procedure that requires:
A training certificate of the professional
A provision of two recognized references to work (customer testimonial or control office)
Accreditation
Ensure the verification by the CAB of the workers training
Support charging infrastructures for electric vehicles in order to support low emission car development

30. Substainable cities / Smart cities
Urban air quality
Public health issue
Mandatory monitoring of the ambient air
Obligation of accreditation for national reference laboratories
Accreditation recommended for air quality laboratories

31. The benefit of accreditation: Airparif example (1-1278)
Substainable cities / Smart cities
Urban air quality
The benefit of accreditation: Airparif example (1-1278)
 Guarantees the reliability of results
Credit : Airparif

32. Substainable cities / Smart cities
Urban air quality
The benefits of accreditation:
Support air quality monitoring system
Take serenely the necessary measures to protect the health of the public
Rely on reliable measures to support cities in their strategy of substainable development

33. Conclusion
Accreditation is a tool to:
guarantee worker protection measures
improve energy performance
and support initiatives for a substainable city

34. Thank you
for your attention