A-3.001 - Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases

Section 233.2 Disposition versions

2021-10-06

233.2. The Government may form more than one committee on occupational oncological diseases whose function is to determine whether a worker is suffering from an occupational oncological disease.

A committee on occupational oncological diseases shall be composed of the following members appointed following an invitation for applications and after consultation with the Comité consultatif du travail et de la main-d’oeuvre referred to in section 12.1 of the Act respecting the Ministère du Travail (chapter M-32.2), and, in the case of physicians, with the Collège des médecins du Québec:

(1)  a physician holding a specialist’s certificate in medical oncology issued by the Collège des médecins du Québec;

(2)  a physician holding a specialist’s certificate in general internal medicine issued by the Collège des médecins du Québec;

(3)  a physician holding a specialist’s certificate in occupational medicine, or in public health and preventive medicine, issued by the Collège des médecins du Québec; and

(4)  a person holding a university degree at the Master’s or doctoral level in occupational hygiene, occupational health or epidemiology.

The chairman of a committee shall be designated by the Government from among the committee’s members.

The Government shall determine the remuneration and other conditions of employment of the committee members.

2021, c. 27, s. 74.