In university hospital centres, the duties of occupational health physician may be entrusted to a university professor-hospital practitioner in occupational medicine under the conditions defined in articles R. 4626-12 and R. 4626-13. In this case, the provisions of articles R. 4623-4 and R. 4626-9 do not apply.
The independent occupational health and prevention service has at least one full-time occupational physician for every one thousand five hundred employees. For any number of employees or fraction thereof below one thousand five hundred, a part-time occupational physician is used. The threshold of one thousand five hundred employees is raised to two thousand when the autonomous occupational health and prevention service is assisted by the multidisciplinary team made up of…
When the autonomous occupational health and prevention service comprises several doctors, the administrative coordination of their activities may be entrusted to one of them.
In the case of an autonomous occupational health and prevention service set up by agreement between several establishments, the time spent travelling is counted as part of the doctor’s working time.
In order to ensure the implementation of the medical, technical and organisational skills required to prevent occupational risks and improve working conditions, the establishment provides the autonomous occupational health and prevention service with the resources it needs to function properly and carry out its tasks, in particular : 1° Nurses ; 2° Occupational health and prevention service assistants; 3° At the occupational health doctor’s suggestion, on an ad hoc or…
The occupational physician is informed as soon as possible by the head of the establishment of any declaration of occupational illness, illness contracted during work and accident at work. If he considers it necessary, he will draw up a report on the measures to be taken to prevent any recurrence of such incidents. This report is sent to the social and economic committee and to the head of the establishment,…
The occupational health physician devotes one third of his working time to his duties in the workplace. The head of the establishment shall take all measures to enable the occupational health physician to spend this third of his time on the activities mentioned in article R. 4624-1.
The occupational physician attends, in an advisory capacity, meetings of the Works Council and the Works Medical Committee when the agenda of these bodies includes issues relating to health, safety and working conditions.
Before starting work, the employee undergoes a medical examination by the occupational physician. The occupational physician is informed of the position to which the employee is assigned.
The occupational physician will arrange for the appropriate additional examinations to be carried out on the basis of the person’s history, the position to be occupied and with a view to preventing transmissible infectious diseases. The occupational physician carries out or arranges for the additional examinations provided for by the provisions in force for certain categories of workers exposed to particular risks under the conditions provided for in article R….
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