Preparing for the safety commission visit
The periodic visit to a hotel typically comes round every three years, under article GE 4 of the order of 25 June 1980. What is decided on the day is mostly prepared in the months before.
What gets looked at first
The safety register and the verification reports. Not the elegance of your filing, but its existence: a date of last check, a report that proves it, and what happened to the findings raised last time.
- The verification reports, in their original form
- Previous findings and the evidence they were closed
- Staff training certificates
An unclosed finding weighs more than a late check
A late check is fixed by booking it. A finding raised three years ago and still open says something else: that the report was filed without being read. It is the line an inspector re-reads first.
The pack you wish you had the night before
An index, the obligation list with its dates, and the source certificates appended. Assembled by hand it takes an afternoon and one is always missing. Assembled from a register that is already current, it takes a minute.
Common questions
Does the commission give notice?
The periodic visit is announced, which leaves time to gather the documents. Which is exactly why it is better to have nothing left to gather.
