After giving her opinion on the text in the social affairs committee, the deputy for Gers Gisèle Biémouret again intervened in the context of the examination in session of the bill to strengthen prevention in occupational health. She thus recalled that “the organization of health at work is an issue which concerns an important part of the life of the French and the subject is all the more crucial as the picture of the situation is bleak”. Resituating the context in which this law is drawn up, the member drew up a sad observation. “Psychosocial risks are today the second most common pathological group and caused some 20,000 work accidents in 2016. Each year, 500 to 600 deaths in the workplace, 300,000 permanent disabilities and 600,000 work stoppages are deplored” . All these data highlight the issue. “The proposed law that we are examining today therefore aims to reorganize the service offer and the governance of occupational health services, to improve the medical monitoring of employees and the prevention of professional disinsertion. a large part of the national inter-professional agreement on occupational health signed on December 10, it proposes an overhaul of the system, considered difficult to understand and effective. was signed almost unanimously but at a minimum, as pointed out by a certain number of trade union organizations “, underlined the deputy. The latter lamented that “the agreement is not binding and does not propose any measure that could breathe new life into the subject, to the dismay of many occupational physicians. The Council of State in its opinion itself has brought a number of reservations and called for vigilance on some of the proposed measures, such as the delegation of medical visits to the city doctor “. The deputy discussed, article by article, the measures that question and worry about the prevention passport, the taking into account of the shortage of occupational physicians, the responsibility of employers or even the hardship. “Of the 30 articles of the text, few are those which really bring concrete progress for the workers. (..) Above all, your text shines by its shortcomings”, lamented the deputy of Gers.
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