Ergonomic training subsidy pays 70% for 2026-financed courses

Employers can recover 70 % of what they spend on listed ergonomic-risk prevention trainingAmeli through the Assurance Maladie – Risques professionnels subvention Prévention des risques ergonomiques; independent workers are also in scopeAmeli and apply by email to their regional fundAmeli. From 1 January 2026, applications must cover prevention investments financed in 2026Ameli. Only the course (pedagogical) cost is covered — trainees' wages are notAmeli — and the maintien et actualisation des compétences (MAC) top-ups attached to some of these courses can also be funded.

The covered catalogue is organised by theme. For musculoskeletal disorders (TMS): “Devenir personne ressource du projet de prévention des TMS de l'entreprise” and “Devenir chargé(e) de prévention des TMS de l'établissement”, plus train-the-trainer versions of both. For physical-activity risks (PRAP): PRAP IBC courses for industry, construction, trade and office work, and PRAP 2S for health and social care, plus their train-the-trainer versions. Home personal-care employers can fund the “Développer et manager la prévention des risques” executive course, the “Acteur prévention” (AcP ASD) and “Devenir animateur de prévention” (AP ASD) courses with AcP ASD train-the-trainer; residential care funds the executive course and “Devenir animateur de prévention” (AP SMS); road transport and logistics funds the TRL executive course, “Acteur Prévention Secours” (APS TRL) and passenger-transport (APS TRV) courses and “Devenir animateur de prévention” (AP TRL). Prerequisites, objectives and durations for each course sit in the referenced-training list drawn up with the INRS.

Money terms: 70 % of investmentAmeli, with a 25 000 € ceiling for prevention actions (diagnostics, training, equipment) over 2024–2027Ameli and an overall 2024–2027 ceiling, all investment types combined, of 75 000 € for firms with fewer than 200 employeesAmeli and 25 000 € above that lineAmeli; ceilings apply at Siren level. No grant below 500 €Ameli, which means no investment below 715 € excluding taxAmeli (VAT-inclusive amounts where the firm is not VAT-liable, against the non-liability certificate). Where an extended branch agreement on ergonomic-risk prevention covers the firm, funding terms are more generous — 85 % within the 25 000 € ceiling for firms above 200 employeesAmeli. Training-fee claims can be repeated up to 25 000 € through end-2027 outside a branch agreementAmeli.

Applications run online through the company account on net-entreprises.frAmeli, with step-by-step video guidance available; independents apply by email to their regional fund. The file needs paid invoices for the current yearAmeli — purchase and application fall in the same calendar yearAmeli — plus the training certificate naming trainees, trainers, duration and venue, the under-six-months Urssaf vigilance attestationAmeli, and the sworn declaration of all public aid received over the last three years under the EU minimis ruleAmeli. Attachments are capped at 3 MB. Where paid invoices cannot evidence the year's investment, a “service fait” attestation must reach the fund before 31 December of the yearAmeli. The budget is limited and files are handled in arrival order, so filing promptly after investing matters. The subsidy is open to régime général employers and to eligible independent workersAmeli; firms holding a 2024–2027 prevention contract, or one in the two preceding years, are excludedAmeli.

Legal basis is the Assurance Maladie – Risques professionnels subvention Prévention des risques ergonomiques scheme for training, with the EU minimis rule governing the three-year public-aid declaration.