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Health and Safety at work in France: what will it be like in 2025?

An increase in occupational illnesses, new preventive measures, the impact of technology… What will occupational health and safety look like in 2025 in France?

Occupational health and safety is a major issue for all stakeholders (employees, managers, public health organisations), and continues to evolve in the face of today’s challenges. Given this growing importance, the objective remains the same: to protect workers while optimising working conditions. We’ve decided to take a look at the major trends and key measures to be followed this year.

HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK: Some figures for 2023

Each year, the Assurance Maladie publishes an overview of health and safety at work. At the end of December 2024, it released its 2023 edition, providing key figures to better understand the importance of the topic in France.

WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS (WA)

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the number of compensated occupational accidents in 2023

The sectors most affected by these accidents at work remain the same: healthcare, cleaning and temporary work (29% of accidents at work in 2023), food (17%), transport (15%) and construction (14%). Manual handling and falls from a level are still the main causes.

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES (ODS)

Occupational diseases have increased by 7.3% compared with 2022, to 47,434. Of these, MSDs account for almost 90% (41,937), with an increase of 9.5% compared with 2022.

MSDs as a proportion of occupational illnesses90%

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This translates into more than 74 million days not worked in 2023 due to accidents and occupational diseases, underlining the importance of strengthening prevention and awareness strategies.

These figures highlight the need to continue prioritising health and safety at work, and new measures are being introduced to address the problem.

Regulatory Developments and New Measures in 2025

In 2025, several changes will strengthen the prevention of occupational risks and improve the management of health and safety at work.

The Prevention Passport

Created by Law no. 2021-1018 of 2 August 2021 (NB: Strengthening prevention within companies and decompartmentalising public health and occupational health), the prevention passport should be rolled out across the board this year.

The purpose of this passport is to list all the certificates and training courses taken by an employee in relation to health and safety at work. Since 2023, it has been accessible via the professional training account for workers and jobseekers.

Initially scheduled for 2024, the Passport will be fully accessible to employers and training bodies from 2025, making it easier to track skills in occupational risk prevention.

Sick Leave: A New Mandatory Form from June 2025

Officialized since September 2024, this measure aims to combat sick leave fraud, as the Health Insurance has reported a sharp increase in fraudulent sick leaves in 2023. It will become mandatory starting in June of this year.

These are Cerfa forms available on Amelipro, with enhanced security features: magnetic ink, special paper, and a holographic label. The use of these secured forms will thus become mandatory for all paper submissions of sick leave notices.

It should be noted that dematerialised notices of work, transmitted electronically via Amelipro or approved and compatible software, are strongly recommended as the most effective means of preventing fraud and usurpation.

Adoption of new models for monitoring certificates and aptitude notices

Originally scheduled for the end of 2024, the implementation of the new models for monitoring certificates, fitness notices and unfitness notices has now been postponed until 2025.

Occupational health professionals must issue these documents in accordance with the models defined by the Ministry of Labour in an order dated 16 October 2017. A new order adopted in 2024 aims to modernise these certificates in order to improve their readability for employers and employees, while strengthening the regulatory framework and traceability of medical monitoring.

However, no precise date has yet been set for their entry into force during the year.

Health and safety at work: challenges intensifying in 2025

With changes in working conditions and an increase in occupational illnesses, companies are being called upon to step up their preventive measures.

As mentioned, MSDs accounted for almost 90% of occupational illnesses according to the 2024 report: this trend is likely to continue in 2025, with a worrying rise in pathologies linked to working postures and repetitive movements.

At the same time, psychosocial risks (including stress, anxiety and depression) are becoming a major issue, with around 12,000 cases recognised each year by the French health insurance system.

Given these facts, it is essential to strengthen the culture of prevention and raise employee awareness in order to limit these impacts.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work: 28 April

Every 28 April, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) commemorates World Day for Safety and Health at Work, focusing on a topical theme.

This day, created in 2003, aims to ensure safety at work and to raise awareness of the dimensions and consequences of work-related accidents and diseases, to place occupational safety and health (OSH) on the international and national agenda and to support national efforts to improve national occupational safety and health (OSH) systems and programmes. It is an opportunity to raise awareness and adopt best practices in the workplace.

In 2025, this day will focus on the impact of digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) on the safety and health of workers.

It will look at the contribution of new technologies to occupational health and safety, examining technologies such as AI and machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual and augmented reality.

At Moovency, we integrate technology into our KIMEA tools to offer you objective, quantifiable MSD risk analysis and prevention.

By combining our business expertise with direct feedback from the field, KIMEA uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to enable professionals to detect, measure and analyse these risks with unrivalled accuracy and efficiency.

It’s the perfect way to combine business performance and employee health, to guarantee health and safety in the workplace and prevent the risk of MSDs with ease!

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