Employer Responsibilities

OCCUPATIONAL CANCERS: THE EMPLOYER'S OBLIGATIONS

Your employer is under many obligations to protect your health and that of all employees.

Employer obligations

No worker shall suffer the problems of health related to working environment or activity. The employer must take steps to ensure safety and protect the physical and mental health workers.

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The employer is subject to the following obligations:

Regularly assess the risks (nature, extent and duration of exposure), taking into account the actual conditions of work and all reported incidents;
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Employer Responsibilities
The employer is subject to the following obligations:

  • Regularly assess the risks (nature, extent and duration of exposure), taking into account the actual conditions of work and all reported incidents;
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  • provide employees exposed to a carcinogen written information and an enhanced training on the health risks, precautions, procedures to be followed, the port and maintenance of individual protective equipment;

make available from the necessary personal defensive equipment.

The single document

Whatever the size of the company and its industry, the employer must establish a "single document," available to staff representatives, the labor inspector, the occupational physician, agents of prevention of the Regional Health Insurance Fund (CRAM) and other systems of social protection. It assesses risks and determines the preventive measures to be implemented. This is an essential document for the prevention of occupational hazards.