A hotel's safety register: what it must contain
Every public-access property in France keeps a safety register — for a hotel it is required by article R.143-44 of the Construction and Housing Code (formerly R.123-51). It is the first document a commission asks for, and the easiest to let drift.
What the register records
The text wants a record of what has been done for the safety of the property: technical checks and their dates, staff training, works, and the standing instructions. Concretely, a convincing register holds:
- Each periodic check, its date and the report that proves it
- The findings raised and what became of them
- Staff safety training, with its certificates
- Safety-relevant works and their dates
Paper or digital: what actually matters
The text does not mandate a form. What matters on the day: the register exists, is current, and every line is backed by its evidence. A rigorously kept binder beats abandoned software; a register that keeps itself current beats both.
Which checks, how often?
Every interval has its text — order, article, code — and copying them here would create a second version to maintain. The full list, with the instrument behind each interval, is in our France guide below.
How Paco keeps it
Paco builds the register from your documents: a report dropped in or arriving by email updates the obligation it proves, with its date and reference. An obligation without proof stays visible as exactly that — nothing is invented — and the inspection pack assembles in one click from that same register.
Common questions
Who must keep the register?
The operator. The responsibility does not delegate to the contractor who performs the checks: they produce the reports, you keep the register that gathers them.
What if the register is incomplete on the day?
The commission judges on evidence: an unproven check counts as absent, and an unanswered finding weighs more than an owned-up delay. See our guide on the commission visit.
