Occupational health is a ” matter “ alive, in perpetual evolution… And a subject with delicate apprehension. This is first of all because it is located at the crossroads of a multitude of disciplines: law, medicine, engineering sciences (health and safety), but also ergonomics, sociology, psychology and even management sciences.
Furthermore, we note that, over the past decade, its field has “complexified by confronting issues of public health (notably Covid) or environmental health (particularly climate change), enriching itself along the way with concepts from these areas. We talk about exposome, global health, polyexposure”. And, at the same time, regulations have also been able to develop, requiring careful monitoring by company stakeholders.
For’“tool” the professionals concerned by the subject and challenged by its complexity, Emmanuelle Wurtz, general advocate at the Court of Cassation, and Hervé Lanouzière, director of the National Institute of Labor, Employment and Vocational Training (Intefp) , offer Intefp Editions a necessary work, Health at work. Law and practice.
This sum of 592 pages addresses the issue from multiple angles, while remaining faithful to a leitmotif: the legal obligation of employers to ensure safety and prevention must be closely linked. Throughout the pages, the authors endeavor to provide readers with a complete theoretical framework with the definition of the concepts surrounding occupational health, and the details of European normative sources, but also to describe its field applications. including the concrete implementation of general principles of prevention.
Asbestos risk, moral harassment
The book thus aims to answer the many questions that employers, employees, staff representatives, prevention officers, health professionals, etc. may ask, what is, for example, the role of the social and economic committee today in matters of prevention? How to develop a culture of prevention in business? What does the concept of incapacity cover? How can we demonstrate to the judge that the principles of prevention enshrined in law have been fully respected?
The interest of the book lies in the authors’ ability to treat the subject of occupational health in an exhaustive manner, rigorously addressing a multitude of specific points. Developments are thus proposed both on the employer’s responsibility in the face of asbestos risk, as well as on the observation of working conditions at the home of teleworkers, or on the current rapprochement of city medicine, work and social security. One look is at moral harassment in international law, another at the financial incentives that companies put in place to encourage their hierarchical line to address prevention issues.
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