A second plan for health at work - May 12, 2010
The Labour Minister, Eric Woerth, presented today at the Guidance Council working conditions (CTOC) the second draft Occupational Health Plan 2010-2014. Target: 25% reduction in accidents at work and ending 10 years of uninterrupted growth since the number of cases of occupational diseases. Among the activities envisaged: developing measures to prevent occupational hazards, psychosocial risks, chemical and musculoskeletal disorders, and strengthening support for companies, including companies under 50 employees.
This meeting also provided an opportunity to review the past year, marked by the France Telecom case and crystallization of the debates about stress at work.Last year of implementation of the first health plan (2005-2009), 2009 was marked by the decree of December on the control of chemical risk in the workplace, and an information campaign about the prevention of disorder Musculoskeletal (renewed this year), and the emergency plan on psychosocial risks, launched by the predecessor Eric Woerth, Xavier Darcos Guaranteed approval "cash loans. On this last point, recall that the companies were required to register on the website of the Ministry in order to indicate the steps in place for prevention of stress. The aim, then, to deliver the practical to the public, according to the American principle of "named and shamed," and to establish three categories: green, orange and red. It is clear that today, only the green box appears on the ministry website.
Speaking of a "contrast-enhancing status", Eric Woerth evoked a corresponding decrease in the frequency of accidents, the number of occupational diseases is himself again on the decline. Some telling statistics: stagnation of accidents to about 700,000 per year (including 44,000 serious), more than one person a day dies in an accident at work, 13% of the workforce exposed to at least one carcinogenic agents.