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 2021 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
Brittany 2 25 10% 1,911 10.9%
Centre-Val de Loire** 4 29 15% 3,679 4.6%
Grand Est** 2 45 10% 4,865 6.6%
Hauts-de-France 1 48 9% 3,581 8.5%
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 1 45 7% 3,163 7.3%
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
Brittany 4.2 3.3 3.4 9.7 0.3 - * *
Centre-Val de Loire 2.0 1.3 1.4 4.3 - * - *
Grand Est** 3.2 4.7 1.7 2.9 0.4 - 0.1 0.1
Hauts-de-France 2.6 4.6 3.6 6.1 0.2 - <0.1 <0.1
New Aquitaine 4.2 4.1 4.7 5.7 - - * *
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 Centre-Val de Loire region has been aggregated for the years 2021–2022.
Data for the Pays de la Loire region has been aggregated for the years 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Data for the Grand Est region has been aggregated for the years 2020 and 2021. National
data has been aggregated for the years 2020 and 2021

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