Subsection 8: Monitoring workers' health

For each worker exposed to chemical agents hazardous to health, the occupational health physician shall set up and keep an individual file containing : 1° Where applicable, the information communicated by the employer to the occupational physician in application of the third paragraph of article D. 4161-1; 2° The dates and results of any additional medical examinations carried out.

The medical file is kept for at least fifty years after the end of the period of exposure, under the conditions provided for in article L. 4624-8 of this code or article R. 717-27 of the rural and maritime fishing code.

Upon request, the medical file is sent to the company’s medical inspector and may be sent, with the employee’s consent, to a doctor of his choice.

If the establishment or occupational health service to which the worker is attached disappears or if the worker moves to another establishment, the entire medical file is sent to the occupational health inspector, who is responsible for sending it, at the worker’s request, to the occupational health physician now responsible.