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Ensuring compliance with the law À MONACO DEPUIS
In Monaco, only large commercial companies
with more than 500 employees (and more
than 50 for industrial and building activities)
are required to hold a health and safety
committee meeting every three months.
During these meetings, the prevention
officers can assist the occupational
physician, thereby getting to know the
company and the site. For the others, “these Découvrez nos solutions
interventions, carried out by the Prevention pour la clientèle de Banque Privée,
Team at the request of the doctor or the de particuliers, d’entreprises et de professionnels.
company, represent a real plus, allowing a
technical diagnosis on a particular problem.
This service is free, so it’s all good for the privatebanking.societegenerale.mc
company,” believes Pascale Pallanca, Labour
Inspectorate and OMT Director. “The Labour
Inspectorate controls whether companies
comply with the legislation and reminds © depositphotos/ lenecnikolai
them of the applicable standards (rooms
with a window, absence of dust, brightness
and so on)” adds Pascale Pallanca.
As for the prevention of MSDs, “the role of risk Burn-out is not recognised as an occupational sends emails 24 hours a day and never takes
prevention is addressed during the medical disease in Monégasque legislation. “Burn-out a break. You need a minimum of discipline, a
visit at work,” specifies Dr Christine Bourguet, is a hard-to-quantify syndrome. The problem healthy lifestyle instead of a sedentary lifestyle!”
according to whom all large structures can is multifactorial and combines issues related the Occupational Physician reminds us.
call upon specialist help. For example, “a to both private and professional life; we also
hotel, the Monte-Carlo Bay, which had realised speak today of parental burn-out,” points out Dr Nowadays, there are other illnesses which
that the chambermaids were experiencing Christine Bourguet. “It concerns perfectionist are work-related: bore-out, professional
chronic pain from changing the sheets and personalities and manifests itself in withdrawal exhaustion caused by boredom and under-
duvets repeatedly, set up ergo-beds as well from the team. The person is consumed and workload that can lead, according to
a muscle warm-up session before starting gradually burns out. They can’t even get out researchers, to depression, epileptic fits or,
work every morning, in collaboration with of bed. Sometimes it is the employer or a even worse, suicide; there is also brown-out,
spinal specialists,” she notes. colleague who alerts us when an employee meaning power cut - this is an employee who
shows warning signs of irritability and who is tired of having absurd tasks to perform,
Burn-out boom? requests a medical examination.” Beyond gradually becoming withdrawn, not feeling
Unlike other countries such as France, the burn-out, “the remote work imposed by Covid that they were recruited for their merits and
prevention of psychosocial risks is not may have caused some people to feel socially no longer feeling useful to the company. The
enshrined in law in Monaco. Since Covid, isolated, away from the company, specially staff member loses all motivation and wishes
it has been necessary to be particularly among people with no family or social life during to be absent more and more. “We have not
vigilant. Cases of depression or burn-out the crisis. The risk is to be too connected, hyper- seen this type of case,” says the Occupational
have boomed in Europe, the fault of very long connected. This is seen with an employee who Physician - at least for now…
working hours during imposed teleworking
and difficulties in differentiating between
professional and personal life, as well as a
loss of motivation. Some people deteriorate, Increased vigilance on high-risk positions
collapse psychologically and may even Since the 2017 reform, there is no longer a systematic medical examination prior
be hospitalised. In 2021, the World Health to hiring to judge the aptitude of an employee. This is now reserved for “risk
Organisation sounded the alarm about care- positions”. “These include activities involving exposure to chemicals, carcinogens,
givers, reporting that doctors, nurses and other risk of injury or falling,” lists Dr Bourguet. Urinary strip tests for diabetes screening,
medical staff have higher levels of anxiety and electro-cardiograms, ocular hypertension can all be performed. “There is a real public
depression than other professional groups, authority prevention policy in Monaco with a considerable examination platform:
based on a study published in the British colorectal cancer screening, tetanus vaccination if necessary, the fight against
Medical Journal of 2,884 healthcare workers smoking, alcoholism and contagious diseases.”
in the United States, France, Germany, Italy,
Spain and the United Kingdom.
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