It was first of all charged of the surveillance of the implementation of the 22 March 1841 law prohibiting child labour of less than 8 years old.
The function was popularized by the inspector Pierre Hamp, who maintained a chronicle in L'Humanité newspaper from 1906 to 1912.
During a routine inspection of seasonal workers on a vineyard[1] on 2 September 2004, Claude Duviau, a farmer from Saussignac shot and killed two labour inspectors, Sylvie Trémouille and Daniel Buffière.
[2] The shooting led to a nation-wide debate on labour inspectors' work conditions in France.
[4] Under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Labor, the school became a public administrative establishment on January 1, 2006, under Decree no.