Book VI: Prevention institutions and organisations

Where the occupational health and prevention service is provided by a group or body separate from the establishment employing the workers benefiting from this service, the managers of this group or body are subject, under the same conditions as the employer and subject to the same penalties, to the provisions of this Title.

Occupational health and prevention services are provided by a multidisciplinary occupational health team comprising occupational physicians, medical assistants, occupational medicine interns, occupational risk prevention specialists and nurses. These teams may be supplemented by medical auxiliaries with occupational health skills, occupational health and prevention service assistants and professionals recruited on the advice of occupational physicians. Occupational physicians are responsible for leading and coordinating the multidisciplinary team, or they delegate this responsibility….

The occupational health and prevention service includes a multi-disciplinary unit for the prevention of occupational deintegration responsible for: 1° Proposing awareness-raising initiatives; 2° Identifying individual situations; 3° Proposing, in conjunction with the employer and the worker, the individual measures provided for in article L. 4624-3 ; 4° Participating in the support of workers eligible to benefit from the measures to prevent occupational deintegration provided for inarticle L. 323-3-1 of the…

Occupational health and prevention services include an occupational social service or coordinate their actions with those of the occupational social services provided for in Article L. 4631-1.

The inter-company occupational health and prevention service provides its member companies and their workers with a basic set of services which must cover all the tasks provided for in article L. 4622-2 in terms of occupational risk prevention, individual monitoring of workers and prevention of occupational deintegration, the list and procedures for which are defined by the national occupational health and prevention committee and approved by regulation. In the absence…

I.- In the event of serious malfunctioning of the inter-company occupational health and prevention service affecting the fulfilment of its missions under the umbrella set out in Article L. 4622-9-1, the administrative authority may order its chairman to remedy the situation within a timeframe which it shall set. This period must be reasonable and appropriate to the objective sought. It shall inform the regional occupational health and safety committee. This…

Each inter-company occupational health and prevention service is subject to a certification procedure, carried out by an independent body, with the aim of making an assessment using benchmarks on : 1° The quality and effectiveness of the services provided as part of the core set of services; 2° The organisation and continuity of the service and the quality of the procedures followed; 3° Financial management, pricing and its development; 4°…

In compliance with the general tasks set out in Article L. 4622-2, the obligation to provide the core set of services set out in Article L. 4622-9-1, the guidelines of the national policy on the protection and promotion of health and safety at work and the improvement of working conditions, as well as its regional component, the priorities set by the professional branch in the case of a branch service,…