New templates for employee individual health monitoring certificates

A decree dated September 26, 2024, updates the templates to be used by professionals in occupational health and prevention services (SPST).

The following cases are affected:

• Individual health monitoring of the employee ;

• Medical examination concluding that an employee under reinforced individual monitoring (SIR) is fit for work ;

• Medical examination concluding that an employee under SIR is unfit for work ;

• Medical examination resulting in proposals for individual adjustments to the workstation or working hours.

These changes follow the reform introduced by Law No. 2021-1018 of August 2, 2021, aimed at strengthening occupational health prevention.

These templates must now be used in the following cases:

• For the certificate of individual health monitoring of the employee, during:
  • the information and prevention visit conducted upon the actual start of the job;
  • the return-to-work visit following maternity leave, an absence due to an occupational disease, an absence of at least thirty days due to a work-related accident, or an absence of at least sixty days due to a non-occupational illness or accident;
  • the medical examination requested by the employee, the employer, or the occupational physician. This visit is conducted independently of pre-employment and periodic fitness examinations, as well as information and prevention visits. It may be requested by employees under "standard" or reinforced individual monitoring;
  • mid-career medical examination;
  • post-exposure medical examination for a worker under individual health monitoring (SIR) after cessation of exposure to occupational risks;
  • post-employment medical examination for a former worker (inactive, including retirees) who is or was under individual health monitoring (SIR);
  • intermediate medical examinations for a worker receiving individual health monitoring (SIR).
• For the fitness certificate of an employee receiving individual health monitoring (SIR), during:
  • the pre-employment fitness examination;
  • the four-year renewal of the fitness examination.
• For the unfitness certificate of an employee under individual health monitoring (SIR), in all the aforementioned cases that may lead to a finding of unfitness, namely: pre-employment examination, periodic examination, intermediate examination, requested examination, and return-to-work examination.
• For the certificate proposing workstation adjustments, this template is combined with a certificate of individual health monitoring for the employee or a notice of unfitness. It concludes with an adaptation of the workstation or working hours.

Their modification comes into effect on October 11, 2024.

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