Subsection 1: Recruitment and conditions of practice.

I – A special diploma is required in order to work as an occupational health physician. II – By way of derogation from I, a decree lays down the conditions under which prevention and occupational health services may recruit, after the issue of a replacement licence and authorisation by the relevant departmental councils of the ordre des médecins, on a temporary basis, an intern in the speciality who practises under…

A decree determines the conditions under which the duties of occupational physicians may be declared incompatible with the exercise of certain other medical activities.

The occupational health physician is a physician who is, as far as possible, employed on a full-time basis and who does not practise general practice medicine. This article does not apply to the corresponding medical practitioner mentioned in IV of article L. 4623-1.

Occupational doctors devote one third of their working time to their duties in the workplace. The employer or the director of the inter-company occupational health and prevention service shall take all measures to enable the occupational physician to comply with this obligation and to participate in the company’s internal bodies and territorial coordination bodies during the other two thirds of his working time.