EKAS adopted new annexes to the MSST directive (EKAS/CFST no. 6508) on 23 October 2025 and announced them on 1 December 2025. The main text and its thresholds (10 and 50 people) stay the same. How you find out whether you are concerned does change.
The four changes to know
- The table of particular hazards (annex 1) was rebuilt. It gives concrete thresholds: electrical voltage, stored quantities of flammable liquids, noise level and so on.
- Headcount covers the whole company. The 2007 edition used an average over two years.
- "Required knowledge" is defined by competence, not by titles.
- The net premium rate rule is gone. The 2007 edition said that companies with a net premium rate of 0.5 % of payroll or more generally had particular hazards. That sentence no longer exists. The premium rate now only appears in the subsidiary model (annex 3), which gives guide values for specialist hours per employee per year.
What it means for you
A company that thought it was out of scope because of its premium rate must now check annex 1 itself. The other way round, a company can fall out of scope if its quantities or levels stay below the new thresholds.
Competence now counts more than titles. A good moment to check that your key people have up-to-date training and competences, and that you can show it.
How ENSURE fits
- Legal register: load the directive PDF into the legal register. AI extracts every article with its text. You give each one a status (compliant, partly, not compliant) and a next review date.
- Risk review: set a review date on your risk register. ENSURE reminds you when reviews are due.
- Competences: training tracks competences with their expiry date, per person.
- Measures: for each gap, create an action with an owner and a deadline.
Sources: MSST directive, CFST no. 6508, French (as of 23 October 2025); EKAS announcement (German).
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