The French government’s new national cancer prevention plan includes an explicit aim to reduce the toll of occupational cancer through regulation, enforcement and substitution. Objective 12 of the action plan for 2014-2019 is ‘Preventing cancers related to work or the environment.’

President François Hollande’s news release (in French). Plan Cancer 2014-2019, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, February 2014 (in French). EU-OSHA news report. Risks 643.