Paragraph 2: Pre-employment medical examination

Reinforced individual monitoring includes a medical aptitude examination, which replaces the information and prevention visit provided for in article R. 4624-10. This is carried out by the occupational physician prior to assignment to the position. The purpose of this examination is in particular to: 1° To ensure that the worker is medically fit for the job to which the employer plans to assign him, in particular by checking that the…

This examination and any renewal thereof will result in the occupational physician issuing a notice of fitness or unfitness in accordance with the provisions of article L. 4624-4. This opinion of fitness or unfitness is sent to the worker and the employer and placed in the occupational health medical file of the person concerned.

When the worker has undergone a medical examination for fitness in the two years prior to his recruitment, the organisation of a new medical examination for fitness is not required if all of the following conditions are met: 1° The worker is called upon to occupy an identical job presenting equivalent risks of exposure; 2° The occupational physician concerned is in possession of the worker’s last medical opinion for fitness;…