According to Anne Audic, “it’s no secret! The situation of temporary workers is more accident-prone than that of permanent employees”. Temporary workers even have “twice as much risk of being affected by an accident” as the others, adds the assistant to the deputy director of working conditions, health and safety at work, at the General Directorate of Labor (DGT). Especially on construction sites.
However, on major infrastructure projects, the share of these temporary workers can be very significant. For example, “a quarter of all the workforce on the Grand Paris Express sites are temporary workers. Half are employed directly by the companies, and the remaining quarter represents the subcontractors”, lists Bernard Cathelain, member of the management board of the Société du Grand Paris. A quarter of the workforce certainly, but “almost half of the accidents affect temporary workers”, he laments.
More mobile, less well trained
The vulnerability of these workers lies in the fact that they “are not always very well trained and do not know the work environment”, believes Anne Audic. “They don’t measure the challenges specific to major projects either,”
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