Occupational diseases

Occupational diseases are defined as any illness that may be work-related but is not recognized as an occupational disease by a social security system.

Our missions

  • Monitoring the epidemiological trends of occupational diseases

  • Enabling the adaptation of preventive measures

  • Provide data to update occupational disease tables

  • Estimating underreporting of occupational diseases

Results of the 2020 MCP Fortnightly Competitions

Participating regions

The results presented in the tables below have already been published regionally.

Number of two-week periods Participating occupational physicians Participation rate Number of employees seen Reporting rate
Antilles** 4 11 (who participated in at least one two-week period) - 1,140 7.6%
Grand Est** 2 45 10% 4,865 6.6%
New Aquitaine 1 54 9% 4,338 7.5%
Pays de la Loire** 5 13 4% 733 13.8%
National** 14 236 9% 21,446 8.5%

Prevalence rates of MCP by sex (%)

Musculoskeletal disorders Mental distress Hearing disorders Irritation and/or allergy
H F H F M F H F
Antilles** 3.3 6.3 0.6 4.7 0.1 - 0.1 0.3
Grand Est** 3.2 4.7 1.7 2.9 0.4 - 0.1 0.1
New Aquitaine 2.7 3.6 2.7 6.5 * * * *
Pays de la Loire** 7.8 8.2 3.8 8.2 - - * *
National** 3.4 4.3 2.9 5.6 0.2 - 0.1 0.2

* Headcount less than 5.

**: Data for the French West Indies has been aggregated for the years 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Data for the Pays de la Loire region has been aggregated for the years 2020, 2021, and 2022
Data for the Grand Est region and national data have been aggregated for the years 2020 and 2021 National
data have been aggregated for the years 2020 and 2021

Since 2019, all indicators have been adjusted for gender, age, socio-professional category, and economic sector.