Prevention of occupational exposure and carcinogenic products

The pre­ven­tion of occu­pa­tio­nal expo­sure to car­ci­no­ge­nic pro­ducts had made a lot of noise with expo­sure to asbes­tos. In terms of expo­sure to toxic pro­ducts, I was able to see all the pro­gress that had been made when I was prac­ti­cing law in the ear­ly 2000s, par­ti­cu­lar­ly with regard to asbes­tos. Howe­ver, I was sho­cked to learn that the legis­la­tor had modi­fied cer­tain pro­vi­sions. These pro­vi­sions are serious regres­sions (che­mi­cal risks, since 2017, no lon­ger fall within the scope of the labor penal­ty). The safe­ty stan­dards must be even more dras­tic to avoid new dra­mas. We can base our­selves on the syn­the­sis that has been retai­ned by the Euro­pean Union and the Inter­na­tio­nal Agen­cy for Research on Can­cer. Thanks to their work, they have esta­bli­shed a com­pi­la­tion of com­mon che­mi­cals accor­ding to the sec­tor and the pro­fes­sio­nal acti­vi­ty, car­ci­no­ge­nic and muta­ge­nic that are harm­ful to humans. Even if we are more and more nume­rous to know the main car­ci­no­ge­nic pro­ducts, I would like to remind them to you: Asbes­tos, Arse­nic, Ben­zene, Cad­mium, Dioxins, Fluo­rine, Mer­cu­ry, some pes­ti­cides as well as lead. I invite you to go to the WHO web­site which will be able to give you pre­cise expla­na­tions here. It is urgent; you know that can­cer is the first cause of mor­ta­li­ty in France. The French State is among the dyna­mic coun­tries in terms of envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion because we know how dead­ly pol­lu­tion can be. But a lot of work remains to be done.We have a triple objec­tive. 1. That the legis­la­tor be intrac­table concer­ning the risks of pol­lu­tion: it is the duty of pre­ven­tion. 2. That the French make efforts them­selves in their consump­tion habits. 3. We must conti­nue to finance research to cure can­cer patients. Tell us what you think on the LEVA forum