The compulsory hiring medical examination is no longer. Since January 1, labor law modified the rules in force concerning occupational medicine and in particular the performance of the compulsory medical examination. This is replaced by an information and prevention visit. It must be carried out during the trial period and within three months at most following hiring, according to the decree of December 27, 2016. This consultation is an opportunity for the employee to take stock of his state of health according to his the age of the worker and to be made aware of the possible occupational risks to which he may be exposed.
The text stipulates that any work, which involves risks for the safety or health of the person in charge of it or for his colleagues, will be accompanied by reinforced individual monitoring of his health. “This follow-up includes in particular a medical examination of aptitude, which replaces the visit of information and prevention”, points out the law.
Individual health monitoring for all workers
The medical examination is repeated at a frequency decided by the occupational physician. But the visit will be compulsory at least every 5 years, or, every three years for disabled workers, minors or night workers.
These new measures have been taken to modernize occupational medicine “by making it more efficient and more targeted, in a context where the recruitments of occupational doctors are increasingly difficult to operate”, explains the Ministry of Labor on its site . It “sanctuaries” and introduces for the first time the principle according to which “all workers benefit (…) from individual monitoring of their state of health”, according to the terms of the ministry.
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