Aptéis

What Aptéis does

Aptéis is a French worker cooperative (SCOP-ARL) founded in 2008/2009 and headquartered in Paris with operational offices in Montreuil. The firm delivers certified workplace-health expertise mandated by French labor law to employee representative bodies, principally the CSE (Comité Social et Économique) in the private sector and F3SCT, CSA, and CST committees in the public sector. It employs roughly 5 to 8 pluridisciplinary professionals — work sociologists, ergonomists, and occupational psychologists — and operates as a registered training organization. Aptéis is QUALIANOR-certified as a CSE expert in three domains (work organization, work environment exposures, and professional equality) and sits on the board of industry association ADEAIC, which it co-founded in 2015.

The firm's core offering comprises five legally mandated expertise services: serious-risk (risque grave) assessment, important-project impact analysis, PSE (redundancy plan) review, professional equality analysis for companies with ≥300 employees, and new-technology introduction assessment. These are complemented by free, joint, and ergonomic studies, training programs for representatives, and accompaniment services for self-conducted investigations. Each engagement follows a documented four-phase methodology (document review, individual and collective interviews, workplace observation, quantitative analysis and reporting), with a minimum-two-intervenor rule to ensure objectivity. Reports are delivered within labor-law-prescribed timelines (e.g., within two months for risque grave; fifteen days before CSE deadlines for important projects).

Aptéis bills on a unit-pricing model at €1,650 excl. VAT per intervenor per intervention day, with cost and scope formalized in a tripartite mission letter signed by the CSE, the employer, and Aptéis. Financing varies by mandate type — risque grave and PSE are 100% employer-funded, projet important / new technology default to an 80/20 employer-CSE split, and professional equality falls back to 100% employer when no equality indicators are disclosed in the BDES. Distribution is entirely direct, national in France, with no resellers and no digital product surfaces. Visible customers span large French enterprises and public institutions across banking (AXA, Banque Populaire, Caisse d'Épargne, MAIF), energy (EDF, Enedis, RTE), transport (RATP, SNCF), healthcare (AP-HP, Hospices Civils de Lyon), industry (Renault, Schneider Electric), telecommunications (Orange, La Poste), retail (EssilorLuxottica), and government (Mairie de Paris, Veolia, UNICEF France).

Name

Aptéis

Legal name

Apteis

Website

https://apteis.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Aptéis is a French employee-owned cooperative that provides QUALIANOR-certified workplace health and ergonomics expertise to CSE and public-sector representative bodies across France, covering serious risk, major project, PSE, professional equality, and new technology mandates at €1,650 per intervention day.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Occupational Health and Safety Consulting

NAICS

Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAAALAN

Human Resources & Talent (SHRM/HRCI Recertification)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Professional Licensure & Continuing Professional Education (CE/CPE)

Keywords

• CSE expertise services
• Occupational health consulting
• Workplace risk assessment
• Ergonomic studies
• Psychosocial risk prevention

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Expertise services for CSE: Core revenue from conducting certified expert assessments for CSE (Comité Social et Économique) in areas of serious risk, important projects, PSE, professional equality, and new technology introduction. Pricing based on daily rate of 1,650 EUR per intervention day.
2. Training services: On-demand training programs for employee representatives and prevention actors on occupational health, professional risk prevention, and psychosocial risks. Topics include RPS identification, DUERP development, accident analysis, and CSE investigations.
3. Studies and diagnostics: Free studies, joint studies, and ergonomic studies conducted for CSE or jointly with employers on occupational risks, work organization, and working condition improvements.
4. Support and accompaniment services: Accompaniment services for employee representatives to help them conduct their own investigations, prepare reports, or implement recommendations from previous expertise.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Aptéis is a French worker cooperative (SCOP) that provides certified occupational health and safety expertise to employee representative bodies (CSE) under French labor law. The company conducts on-site investigations combining work sociology, ergonomics, and occupational psychology to analyze real working conditions, and delivers five legally mandated expertise services covering serious occupational risks, important projects, redundancy plans (PSE), professional equality, and new technology introductions, alongside supporting studies, training, and accompaniment services.

Product overview

Aptéis is a cooperative (SCOP) providing expert advisory services for workplace health and safety. The core offering consists of five expertise services mandated by French labor law for CSE representatives: Expertise Risque Grave (serious risk assessment), Expertise Projet Important (major project impact analysis), Expertise PSE (collective redundancy plan analysis), Expertise Égalité Professionnelle (gender equality analysis), and Expertise Nouvelles Technologies (new technology introduction assessment). Supporting services include Études Libres, Études Paritaires, and Études Ergonomiques (free, joint, and ergonomic studies), Formations training programs, and Accompagnements support services. The company also provides downloadable document templates (Modèles de Délibération) as part of its toolkit offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Expertise Risque Grave Certified expertise service for CSE to analyze and evaluate serious occupational risks including physical hazards (falls, chemical exposure, musculoskeletal disorders) and psychosocial risks (work-related stress, conflicts), providing recommendations for prevention.
• Expertise Projet Important Certified expertise service for major organizational projects affecting working conditions, including restructuring, relocations, service reorganizations, telework implementation, flex-office, new tool introductions, and changes to work schedules or productivity criteria.
• Expertise Plan de Sauvegarde de l'Emploi (PSE) Joint expertise service analyzing the impact of collective redundancy plans on work organization, employee working conditions, and health risks for remaining staff, conducted alongside accounting experts.
• Expertise Égalité Professionnelle Expertise service to analyze gender professional equality in companies with at least 300 employees, supporting negotiation preparation on equal professional treatment between men and women.
• Expertise Nouvelles Technologies Expertise service for CSE consultation on technical and technological evolution projects transforming work organization and conditions, including analysis of risks and organizational complexity.
• Études Libres Socio-economic studies requested by CSE covering economic and social competencies, including analysis of employment management, training policies, and prevention policies, financed by CSE operating budget.
• Études Paritaires Joint studies conducted at the joint request of employers and employee representatives, covering psychosocial risks, workload analysis, and occupational risk prevention, with costs negotiated between parties.
• Études Ergonomiques Ergonomic analysis interventions for designing or modifying tools, machines, and organizations based on physiology, psychology, and work sociology principles to adapt work to humans, reduce injuries and accidents.
• Formations en Santé au Travail Training services on occupational health, risk prevention, and psychosocial risks for employee representatives (CSE/CSSCT) and prevention actors, covering topics such as psychosocial risk identification, DUERP development, accident analysis, and CSE investigation methods.
• Accompagnements CSE

Quantifiable outcome

• Expertise report delivery within 2 months for Risk Grave (extendable by 2 months by agreement)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers24 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ADEAIC (Association des expert.e.s et intervenant.e.s auprès des CSE)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 February 2015Association created on February 2, 2015 to defend employee representation rights and expertise pre rogatives for occupational health and working conditions. Aptéis is a founding member and serves on the Board of Directors and Bureau. The association promotes exchange between members, with mandates, and with other occupational health actors.
• CedaetminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSpecialized occupational health cabinet collaborating with Aptéis on specific intervention needs.
• ErgonomniaminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerErgonomics-focused specialized cabinet working with Aptéis on specialized ergonomic analysis requirements.
• SACEFminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAccounting firm partner collaborating with Aptéis for PSE (Plan de Sauvegarde de l'Emploi) expertise requiring joint economic and occupational health analysis.
• Actys ExpertisesminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAccounting firm partner collaborating with Aptéis for PSE expertise requiring combined economic and occupational health analysis.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• PRAGMA: PRAGMA is a French certified CSE expert cabinet providing expertise on serious risk, important projects, PSE, and professional equality — directly overlapping Aptéis's core services for the same client base.
• EXPERTEA: EXPERTEA is a French HR and social relations consultancy that delivers CSE expertise mandates, ergonomic studies, and occupational health diagnostics — overlapping directly with Aptéis's expertise study business.
• SECAFI: SECAFI is France's largest CSE expert firm, delivering certified risk, project, and PSE expertise across the same Article L.2315-94 framework as Aptéis. It is the most directly comparable competitor in scope, customer base, and service line-up.
• TOP EXPERTISE: TOP EXPERTISE is a French firm providing CSE certified expertise and HR advisory, with overlapping service lines in working-condition assessments and project impact analyses similar to Aptéis.
• APEX Expertise: APEX is a French CSE expert cabinet providing certified expertise on serious risk, important projects, and PSE mandates, competing with Aptéis for the same CSE clientele.

Broad incumbents

• INRS: INRS is the French national institute for occupational health and safety, offering reference research, training, and resources that parallel Aptéis's occupational health expertise and prevention training portfolio.
• KPMG France People & Change: KPMG's People & Change advisory in France provides HR transformation, organizational change, and workforce-related consulting that overlaps with Aptéis's 'projet important' and organizational diagnostic work, though at much larger scale and broader scope.
• ANACT: ANACT is the French national agency for the improvement of working conditions, providing research, training, and methodological support that overlap with Aptéis's training and study services, though it is a public-sector body rather than a private consultancy.

Others

• ADEAIC: ADEAIC is the French association of CSE experts and intervenors of which Aptéis is a founding member; it is an industry body rather than a competitor, but membership signals Aptéis's positioning within the recognized CSE expert community.

Regional players

• BVA: BVA is a French survey and social research firm with capabilities in social barometers, RPS diagnostics, and workplace studies that intersect with Aptéis's 'Études' service line, though its primary focus is broader market and social research.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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