[Occupational physician: a global consultant for prevention and health promotion in workplace].

Work, Occupational Medicine, legislative framework are in a deep and wipe transformation. To be able to adequately the occupational physician is requested to improve and update his professional capability, in a correct relationships between laws and normative and technical good practices. Anther crucial point appears his ability to support all the aspects involving the health protection and promotion in workplaces: form project or organization of new productions, to risk evaluation and management, to health surveillance and occupational epidemiology, to legal actions. In other words the occupational physician as a global consultant for employers ad for employees. Strategic in this perspective are the instruments (guidelines, protocols, consensus documents, technical assessments) for qualifying and updating the professionals, for which the scientific societies have a central tole.