Abstract
This chapter presents details of occupational medicine in European Economic Community. By the law, occupational health services are obligatory in Belgium. Firms, who employ less than 2,500, must either have a physician of their own or participate in a group scheme. The physician is paid by his employer and is not concerned with sickness absence. Duties are mainly preventive and environmental. In Denmark, there is no separate organization for doctors working in the occupational health field. By law in Holland, any company, employing more than 750 workers, is obliged to provide an occupational health service, and the physicians employed are paid by their companies. In Ireland, there is no legal requirement to provide occupational health services or statutory requirements for training of occupational physicians. As yet, there are no statutory requirements for occupational health services in West Germany, although it is shortly to be a legal requirement that companies employing more than 700 must have an occupational health service.
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