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That is, the health surveillance is an obligation of the employer and as such, a right of the worker. Generally, for the worker is voluntary and can only be done when providing their consent. Only it is mandatory for the employee under the following conditions on the report to representatives of workers:

• - When the medical examination is essential to evaluate the effects of working conditions on the individual, leaving open the very concept of "involuntariness".
• - To check the status of the worker's health can be a danger to himself or others.
• - Where it is established in a legal provision regarding the specific risks and particularly dangerous activities. For example, when the worker handles chemicals.
• - When this comes established in the collective agreement. Case construction Convention.
• - When you have typed in the workplace occupational disease risk. For example, exposure to noise or certain physical agents.

Moreover, the Article 197 of the General Law on Social Security prescribes "the failure of the company from the obligation to make the periodic medical examinations prior or lodged in the direct responsibility of all benefits that may arise in such cases, occupational disease, whether the company was associated with Mutual of Accidents and Occupational Diseases, as if protecting cover this contingency in a management company. "