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The CHSCT's (Health & Safety Committee) right to expertise is regularly used when new work places are designed. The Labour Code defines the primary role of the expertise as the assessment of the project's consequences on the health and safety conditions at work. Yet, if we want to assist CHSCT in participating in the design process, it seems important to also intervene on the level of the project's management. Based on our experience conducting an expertise on the construction of a new head office building of a bank, we provide a return on experience on such types of interventions. Central to our contribution are the difficulties inherent to the legal framework, to the late consultation of the H&S Committee and to the implementation of "participative" methods. We will identify ways to circumvent constraints and facilitating factors in a participatory design process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]