Well-being at work
Conflict prevention
Mediation
The CNRS mediator, Pascale Beyma, intervenes at national level to resolve conflicts and relational difficulties experienced by CNRS employees at work, with both individual and collective impacts. She respects the mediator's code of ethics, guaranteeing independence, confidentiality, attentiveness, impartiality, neutrality and a voluntary approach. The mediator also acts as a facilitator in administrative difficulties between CNRS employees and the institution's departments. She has no decision-making powers in the performance of her duties. Each year, she submits an anonymous report to the CNRS CEO and reports on her activities to the CNRS F3SCT. It does not intervene in matters relating to scientific integrity and ethics.
Reporting
As provided for in the law of August 6, 2019 on the transformation of the civil service, the CNRS has set up a listening and support unit for employees who feel they have been the victim of, or witnessed, an act of violence, discrimination, moral or sexual harassment or gender-based harassment.
The operation of the system is governed by a dedicated circular. Joël Moret-Bailly is in charge of reporting, and is assisted by a Reporting Unit.
Quality of life at work
Since 2017, CNRS has decided to make quality of life at work one of its Human Resources priorities. An action plan for a quality of working life approach has been defined, of which the QWL (Quality of Working Life) call for projects is one of the actions.
Each year, the CNRS Human Resources Department offers a call for projects on quality of life, designed to support collective initiatives on the "recipe" for developing an individual and collective sense of well-being at work within the Unit.
Health and safety at work
CNRS is committed to building a healthy working environment and integrating health and safety issues into all its activities to limit accidents and incidents. CNRS is committed to preventing occupational hazards in its 1,100 laboratories, in France and abroad, notably by drawing on each unit's Document unique d'évaluation des risques professionnels (DUERP).
A national program for the prevention of occupational hazards and the improvement of working conditions, broken down into 17 regional programs and as many action plans as there are laboratories, sets out the priorities for the future, taking into account both the reality on the ground and the strategic orientations of the establishment and those of our supervisory ministry.
At the same time, CNRS develops documentation and tools, communicates regularly on the risks encountered in laboratories, trains nearly 8,000 people each year in occupational health and safety issues, and coordinates a network of 2,200 prevention assistants.