The provisions of this book are applicable to private-law employers and employees. They also apply to the establishments mentioned in 1°, 2° and 3° of article L. 4111-1.
By way of derogation from articles L. 1111-2 and L. 1111-3, for the application of section 1 of chapter III of title II of book VI of the fourth part of the regulatory part, a decree in the Conseil d’Etat sets the conditions under which the number of employees and the rules for crossing workforce thresholds are determined.
Self-employed workers covered by Book VI of the Social Security Code may join the inter-company occupational health and prevention service of their choice. They benefit from a specific range of services relating to occupational risk prevention, individual monitoring and prevention of occupational exclusion. The terms of application of this article shall be determined by decree.
The head of a company that is a member of an inter-company occupational health and prevention service can benefit from the range of services offered to employees.
Employers covered by this Title shall organise prevention and occupational health services.
The main task of occupational health and prevention services is to prevent any deterioration in the health of workers as a result of their work. They contribute to the achievement of public health objectives in order to maintain, throughout working life, a state of health which is compatible with remaining in employment. To this end, they : 1° Conduct occupational health initiatives, with the aim of preserving the physical and…
The occupational physician’s role is exclusively preventive. It consists of preventing any deterioration in the health of workers as a result of their work, in particular by monitoring their hygiene conditions at work, the risks of contagion and their state of health, as well as any obvious risk to the safety of third parties in the immediate work environment.
In prevention and occupational health services other than those mentioned in Article L. 4622-7, the tasks defined in Article L. 4622-2 are carried out by occupational health physicians in complete independence. They carry out their activities in coordination with employers, members of the social and economic committee and the persons or bodies mentioned in article L. 4644-1. To carry out all their tasks, these services may, by agreement, call upon…
Depending on the size of the company, occupational health and safety services may be specific to a single company or common to several.
Without prejudice to the third paragraph of Article L. 1251-22, where a company has its own occupational health and prevention service, this service may, under conditions laid down by agreement, ensure individual monitoring of the state of health of workers, whether employees or self-employed, who carry out their activities on the company’s site. When employees of external companies carry out activities, the nature and duration of which are specified by…
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