A project provides for the abolition of the hiring visit for all, carried out by an occupational doctor in favor of an information and prevention visit. The periodicity increases to five years.
The El Khomri law threatens occupational medicine more and more. In the draft implementing decree for this text, the provisions of which will enter into force on 1 January next, the terms and conditions concerning this medical specialty are set. The maximum period between two visits will now be increased to five years, report our colleagues from Actuel-RH.
Unsurprisingly, Force Ouvrière reacted immediately. In a statement released on Friday, the union writes that it will vote against this project. Member of the Council of Orientation of the Conditions of Work (COCT) which must pronounce this Thursday, December 1st, he estimates that “the shortage of the doctors of work cannot justify this dangerous and harmful reform for the workers”.
Abolition of the hiring visit for all
In more detail, he explains that the project seals the abolition of the hiring visit for all, carried out by an occupational doctor in favor, every five years, of a simple “information and prevention visit” carried out by a healthcare professional. As a reminder, decrees of 2012 had already relaxed the frequency of the medical visit to two years. This new deadline will not allow “the detection of emerging risks and will not promote a relationship of trust between the worker and the occupational health service”, deplores FO.
However, the draft decree imposes a more restrictive frequency of medical visits for positions at risk. Thus, the employee benefiting from this type of follow-up will have to have his aptitude confirmed during a so-called “intermediate” visit no later than 2 years after his pre-recruitment medical examination. Subsequently, medical examinations must take place at most every 4 years.
The College of Physicians is opposed to this reform
Finally, Force Ouvrière also denounces the fate of night workers (but also disabled and minors) whose six-monthly visit with the occupational doctor will now be every 3 years. “We strongly condemn this decision at a time when atypical working hours are multiplying as well as scientific studies proving their harmfulness on the state of health of workers (increase in certain types of cancer, high risk of diabetes, stroke, etc.) “.
It therefore continues to demand regular medical monitoring for all workers and not just for some of them. “We urgently call for intensive care at the bedside of Occupational Medicine for an ambitious reform,” concludes the union. Contested by other organizations, this reform also arouses criticism from the College of Physicians. The CNOM sees this as a threat of the disappearance of occupational medicine and a risk to the health of employees.
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