Is a medical fitness test compulsory?

In the autumn of last year, the rules on the occupational aptitude test changed. However, in line with this, Act XCIII of 1993 on Occupational Safety and Health has changed, making it compulsory to undergo a medical fitness test in certain cases.

It is still mandatory if the job involves specific medical fitness requirements, if other legislation makes it mandatory, or if the employer requires it!

Professional drivers remain subject to the rules of Decree 13/1992 NM laying down the medical fitness of drivers of road vehicles. This includes, of course, the obligation to undergo a periodic test where ap The examination is not compulsory, but according to the above regulation, in the event of a change in health – which, as a layperson, we would not be able to determine?- it is compulsory to send the employee for an out-of-schedule health insurance test!

In fact, it is the employee who is responsible for the annual medical examination, but it is also the responsibility of the employer, the company manager!propriate.

In today’s health care system, workers should be happy to be examined at least once a year, as a preventive measure! But this is not our experience, unfortunately.

Since passenger transport is a dangerous business, it would largely exonerate the employer in the event of an accident if he continued to require an annual occupational health examination with the care he was expected to exercise and did not use his own discretion in assessing the driver’s fitness!

So many -s they are increasing in number – they are avoidable and not a necessary requirement on businesses, but the annual medical fitness is in my view necessary! Why exactly is the legislator making this optional when, for purely economic reasons, many have been frivolously crossed off the list of compulsory requirements this year?! While, at national level, the number of drivers is “ageing” year on year at national level!