en conservant leur intégration

English translation: unharmed

14:08 Oct 7, 2016

French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Safety / compliance & workplace safety

French term or phrase: en conservant leur intégration

"Ce sont des chantiers qui emploient des milliers de personnes, et la sécurité est quelque chose de primordial [...] c’est même le premier des critères, c’est que les gens rentrent chez eux, les employés rentrent chez eux le soir parfaitement en sécurité et **en conservant leur intégration**."

Can this be translated as "in one piece"? Surely this would be "intégralité" (entirety), rather than "intégration? And even then, wouldn't this usually be "en un seul morceau" or "entier(s)"? Perhaps I'm missing the point completely...

Context: an interview with a company spokesman about compliance, specifically related to a construction project as part of a joint venture. The interviewee seems to speak in streams of consciousness rather than straightforward sentences and I've spotted some spelling mistakes in the French transcript, so the material is of dubious quality.

AFAIK, this is French from France and I'm translating into British English.

TIA!

Julia Burgess KudoZ activity Questions: 25 (1 open) (2 without valid answers) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 86 United Kingdom
Local time: 02:19

English translation:unharmed

Explanation:
The French phrase is quite peculiar. I think they mean that the employee are expected to go back home without sustaining any harm at work.

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Note added at 28 mins (2016-10-07 14:36:59 GMT)
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employees

Selected response from:

Marco Solinas
Local time: 18:19

Grading comment

Ideally, I would split the points between everyone who contributed. In the end, I went for "perfectly safe and sound" (parfaitement en sécurité et en conservant leur intégration), having decided that this was probably what the speaker wanted to put across - in his rather convoluted style. However, I think mchd & Margarida's suggestion could well be appropriate in other situations. Thanks again all.
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

all in one piece

B D Finch

while remaining integrated (in the workforce)

Margarida Martins Costelha

unharmed

Marco Solinas

Summary of reference entries provided

Exemple

mchd

Discussion entries: 8

B D Finch

France

@mchd

21:45 Oct 8, 2016

That's an explanation that makes a lot of sense. It would give security to both the company and the worker. In any case, contractors don't generally change over day workers every day, though they are paid by the day. By assuring day workers of a specific minimum length of employment, they gain experience of the site, have an incentive to behave well (e.g. observing safety regulations and not stealing from the site) and work well and the value of site induction, training in H&S etc. is optimised.

Julia Burgess

United Kingdom

ASKER

Thanks for all the input so far

19:26 Oct 8, 2016

@Francois - The text says intégration. Unfortunately, I won't have the opportunity to query anything before submission. Perhaps the speaker "misspoke", perhaps it is an error in the transcript... Or perhaps intégration is precisely what he meant to say...
@Nikki - Interesting idea. However, I don't get the feel from the text as a whole that the company is prioritising integration on a society level. There's no talk of bringing people in from disadvantaged communities or anything like that.
@mchd & @Margarida - This is a new angle that hadn't occurred to me, thank you.

Nikki Scott-Despaigne

to keep one's job? to retain socio-econ integ°?

12:46 Oct 8, 2016

I think the likely meaning here is "to keep one's job". However, if the context permits, you may need to consider whether this is actaully a wider reference to the population concerned being integrated from a socio-economic point of view.

Francois Boye

United States

12:31 Oct 8, 2016

Is it 'intégrité' or 'intégration'? May I ask Asker to check?

mchd

France

conserver leur intégration

21:17 Oct 7, 2016

à savoir : être maintenu dans son poste. A la différence d'autres chantiers sur lesquels le personnel est embauché à la journée, sur ce chantier, le personnel rentre chez lui le soir et revient le lendemain : il reste "intégré" dans la société. C'est un critère de sécurité pour la société, une façon d'instaurer une certaine sérénité en permettant au personnel de passer la soirée hors du lieu de travail, en étant assuré de revenir travailler le lendemain, pour éviter d'avoir à renouveler les consignes de sécurité à d'autres personnes.

writeaway

I wondered because of all the concern and uproar

15:12 Oct 7, 2016

about mistreatment of migrant construction workers. I agree that the Fr is strange. Normally construction workers aren't referred to as employés

Julia Burgess

United Kingdom

ASKER

@writeaway

14:54 Oct 7, 2016

No football connection, I'm afraid - power plants on islands in French overseas territories.

writeaway

Where is the construction site?

14:49 Oct 7, 2016

Anything to do with the next World Cup?

Answers

27 mins confidence:

unharmed

Marco Solinas
Local time: 18:19
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian
PRO pts in category: 6

Grading comment

3 hrs confidence:

all in one piece

Explanation:
This might be the appropriate register.

www.danparr.co.uk/nwminiclub/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=113... Sep 2007 - ... was banned this year because of last years loutish behaviour i recall, its a busy day to get there, have a thrash and get home all in one piece.

https://www.justgiving.com/JoycedoesKokodaGood to see you home safe and all in one piece.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 03:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

7 hrs confidence:

while remaining integrated (in the workforce)

Explanation:
I agree with mchd: I believe it means that these workers go home for the night but do not lose their status as part of the team, so they go back to work the next morning without having to go trough security checks all over again. As opposed to labourers who get hired just for the day.

Margarida Martins Costelha
Portugal
Local time: 02:19
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese

Reference comments

15 hrs peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: Exemple

Reference information:
travail temporaire, possibilité de long contrat voire d''une intégration, rémunération en fonction de l''ancienneté sur le poste

mchd
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French

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