Section 4: Pathology monitoring

The occupational physician is informed by the employer of the deaths and absences due to illness of workers exposed to pathogenic biological agents, when these absences exceed the durations set by joint order of the ministers responsible for labour, health and agriculture according to the nature of the activities carried out and the conditions of exposure to the biological agents.

If a worker is found to be suffering from an infection or disease listed in an occupational disease table and which may be the result of exposure to biological agents, all workers likely to have been exposed at the same workplace will undergo a medical examination, possibly accompanied by additional tests. If the infection or disease is not listed in an occupational disease table, the occupational physician may suggest that…