[Medical secrecy in occupational medicine (I)].

Medical secrecy in occupational medicine (I). The occupational physician is not isolated and works within a multidisciplinary team of an occupational health service. It must communicate with other health professionals, but also with the employers, the representative bodies of the staff... Due to numerous provisions of the Labor Code and the particular position of the occupational physician, counselor of employers and employees, and also of a secrecy particular to the world of work, namely the secret of manufacture, medical secrecy holds a special place in the triangular relation of work doctor, employee, employer. The occupational physician must communicate with the employer and the employee in order to carry out his duties as effectively as possible, but in practice it may be difficult for the occupational physician to make his recommendations and recommendations known in order to improve the working conditions of employees without being able to argue on medical information.