The OPPBTP Health Safety Recommendations Guide will no longer apply from March 14th.

Consequently, the recommendation guide for ensuring health safety on construction sites will no longer apply. The OPPBTP nevertheless calls on companies to be cautious and will publish a post-Covid recommendations document.

The end of the corporate health protocol

On March 8, Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne announced that the company health protocol will cease to apply from March 14. This measure follows the government decision to suspend the vaccination pass this same and the end of the compulsory wearing of the mask in closed places, with the exception of public transport and healthcare establishments. This decision comes in a context of significant and rapid decline in contamination. As a result of these government measures, the application of the recommendation guide to ensure health safety on construction sites will be suspended on this date.

Hygiene rules always in place

However, the OPPBTP invites companies in the sector to remain cautious and to continue to apply hygiene rules, such as washing hands, cleaning surfaces and ventilating premises. Indeed, despite the favorable context, the number of new positive cases of Covid-19 remains relatively high, with a weekly average of around 50.000 daily cases as of Tuesday March 8, 2022.

A post-Covid recommendation guide published by the OPPBTP

The OPPBTP will soon publish a post-covid recommendations document. It will target companies, prime contractors, project owners and employees with messages focused on the beneficial lessons of Covid on hygiene. This document will insist on the continuation of the gestures developed by the actors of the sector during the pandemic: access to water points, cleaning of life bases, wearing a mask in case of risk of contagion, maintaining a stock of protective equipment. health in the event of a resumption of the epidemic...

In addition, prevention advisers and OPPBTP trainers remain available in the field as well as remotely thanks to the service PreventionBTP Live. The specific Questions/Answers database on Covid-19 is still available on the PréventionBTP website.

“It is with undisguised pleasure that the OPPBTP announces the suspension of the application of the Covid guide, instead of yet another version! This is partly the result of the mobilization of companies and construction workers to oppose the epidemic, united around the OPPBTP guide, which has laid down a common framework for action. While savoring our joy, let's remain careful and forward-looking, let's keep the good hygiene habits acquired during the crisis, let's be careful to always combine prevention and performance! », welcomes Paul Duphil, general secretary of the OPPBTP.