Pre-employment examination for low back risk in workers exposed to manual handling of loads: French guidelines

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
A PetitY Roquelaure

Abstract

Low back pain (LBP) is a major cause of sickness absence and disability in the working population, and the pre-employment examination should insure that worker's state of health is compatible with the requirements of proposed job. This paper summarizes the main recommendations of the good practice guidelines of the French Society of Occupational Medicine for pre-employment examination in workers exposed to manual handling of loads apart from pre-employment test. The recommendations were developed according to the Clinical Practice Guidelines proposed by the French National Health Authority and based on a systematic search of the literature 1990-2012 in several databases. The guidelines were written and reviewed by two multidisciplinary committees. On the basis of the level of evidence in the literature, the proposed guidelines are classified as grade A, B, C or expert consensus. The main recommendations of these guidelines are as follows: (1) medical contraindications alone should not exclude employment in a job associated with a low back risk on the basis of a history of "simple" nonspecific LBP; (2) the relevance of examining a previous history of LBP, which is the best predictor of future LBP due to the recurrent nature of L...Continue Reading

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