Chapter II: Tasks and organisation

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…

Employers are responsible for the costs of prevention and occupational health services. In the case of services common to several establishments or several undertakings constituting an economic and social unit, these costs are shared out in proportion to the number of employees counting for one unit each. Within inter-company occupational health and prevention services, the compulsory services provided for in article L. 4622-9-1 are subject to a contribution proportional to…

Each occupational health and prevention service, including occupational health and prevention services other than those mentioned in Article L. 4622-7, is approved by the administrative authority for a period of five years, with a view to ensuring its compliance with the provisions of this Title. This approval takes account, where appropriate, of the results of the certification procedure referred to in Article L. 4622-9-3. National specifications for this approval are…