[Agricultural occupational health and social security].
The Mutualité Sociale Agricole (MSA) is the French social security agency for all agricultural wage earners and non-wage earners. It is the second French social security scheme after the general scheme, providing coverage for wage earners in commerce and industry. The MSA covers the whole spectrum of benefits (recovery, illness, family, retirement, occupational injury and disease) within a unique business window. The management of the MSA is overseen by elected representatives, thus creating a unique social democracy in the world of social security. Among the services managed by the MSA, occupational health and safety hold an original position: the MSA is indeed the only social security agency dealing with occupational health. 350 occupational physicians and 250 prevention consultants work in a multidisciplinary environment for the benefit of agricultural wage earners, as well as farmers, since the MSA implemented in 2002 an occupational risk prevention scheme for farmers.
Lancry
Pierre-Jean
PJ
Caisse Centrale de la Mutualité Sociale Agricole, 93547 Bagnolet. lancry.pierre-jean@ccmsa.msa.fr
Crochet
Benoît
B
Richard-Hamelin
Géraldine
G
Grillet
Jean-Pierre
JP
D000383:Agriculture; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D012943:Social Security