A bill on occupational health tabled in the Assembly

The text, of which AFP has obtained a copy, incorporates the provisions of the ANI concluded on November 10 by the social partners on occupational health. This is a “first transposition of an ANI into a parliamentary initiative text,” Ms. Parmentier-Lecocq, co-author of the proposal with LREM MP Carole Grandjean, stressed to AFP.

This text, which intends to develop "preventive public health policies in the professional environment", reaffirms the possibility of "vaccination campaigns", in particular "against Sars-Cov-2", specified Ms. Parmentier-Lecocq, stressing that this measure "which already existed for influenza" is considered with "the indisputable maintenance of employee volunteering".

In addition to the collaboration with general practitioners, recorded in the ANI to combat the shortage of occupational physicians, the text provides access to the occupational health medical file (DMST) to occupational physicians and health professionals in charge of diagnosis and care, with the employee's consent.

It also offers the integration of occupational physicians into occupational health coordination mechanisms, and their expanded access to telemedicine tools, according to Ms. Parmentier-Lecocq.

It also provides for "the scientific exploitation of anonymized medical data from the DMST".

The "basic offer" of occupational health services (OHS), which become prevention and occupational health services (SPST), is included, their "better legibility and homogeneity". They are focused on three missions: prevention, medical follow-up and prevention of professional withdrawal, that is to say the maintenance of employment of employees who have been affected by health problems.

This bill will soon be submitted to the Council of State, for "an examination in the National Assembly next February and in the Senate in April", according to Ms. Parmentier-Lecocq.

It "makes it possible to transpose the provisions of a legislative nature" of the ANI found on December 10 "at the end of an in-depth work of several months", welcomed in a press release Laurent Pietraszewski, Secretary of State in charge of Health at work.