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Article R4624-21 of the French Labour Code

If the occupational physician is informed and finds that the worker is assigned to a position presenting particular risks to his health or safety or to that of his colleagues or third parties in the immediate working environment defined in Article R. 4624-23, the worker will immediately benefit from the enhanced individual monitoring arrangements provided for in Subsection 2.

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Article R4624-22 of the French Labour Code

Any worker assigned to a post presenting particular risks to his health or safety or to that of his colleagues or third parties in the immediate working environment defined in Article R. 4624-23 shall benefit from enhanced individual health monitoring in accordance with the procedures defined in this sub-section.

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Article R4624-23 of the French Labour Code

I.-The jobs presenting particular risks mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 4624-2 are those exposing workers to: 1° Asbestos; 2° Lead under the conditions laid down in Article R. 4412-160 ; 3° Carcinogens, mutagens or agents toxic to reproduction mentioned in Article R. 4412-60 ; 4° to group 3 and 4 biological agents as referred to in article R. 4421-3 ; 5° to ionising radiation; 6° to hyperbaric…

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Article R4624-24 of the French Labour Code

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…

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Article R4624-25 of the French Labour Code

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.

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Article R4624-27 of the French Labour Code

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;…

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Article R4624-28 of the French Labour Code

Any worker assigned to a position presenting particular risks to his health or safety or to that of his colleagues or third parties in the immediate working environment, as defined in article R. 4624-23, will benefit, after the pre-recruitment medical examination, from a renewal of this visit, carried out by the occupational physician at intervals which he will determine and which may not exceed four years. An interim visit is…

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Article R4624-28-1 of the French Labour Code

The medical examination provided for in Article L. 4624-2-1 is organised for the following categories of workers: 1° Workers who are benefiting or have benefited from enhanced individual monitoring of their state of health as provided for in Article L. 4624-2; 2° Workers who have been exposed to one or more of the risks mentioned in I of article R. 4624-23 prior to the implementation of the enhanced individual monitoring…

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Article R4624-28-2 of the French Labour Code

For the purposes of organising the visit provided for in article L. 4624-2-1, the employer shall inform his occupational health and prevention service, as soon as he is aware of it, of the cessation of exposure of one of the company’s workers to particular health or safety risks justifying enhanced individual monitoring, of his departure or of his retirement. It shall immediately notify the worker concerned of the transmission of…

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Article R4624-28-3 of the French Labour Code

The occupational physician shall draw up an inventory of the worker’s exposure to the occupational risk factors mentioned in Article L. 4161-1. This inventory is drawn up, in particular, on the basis of the information contained in the occupational health medical file provided for in article L. 4624-8, the worker’s declarations and those of his successive employers. At the end of the visit, the occupational physician will give the worker…

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