[Procedures for diagnosis of occupational diseases]

There are many diseases that are of occupational origin, but they are often ignored. To prove an occupational factor requires measures of prevention and repair, and it should therefore be searched for systematically. Screening relies on the fact that the treating physician and company doctor who, in the case of a suspected occupational disease, are able to orient the patient in his/her administrative steps. All physicians are therefore concerned by the procedures for the declaration of an occupational disease. The different possibilities for the recognition of such diseases, not only for agricultural employees but also in the private and public sectors, must therefore be known.