title: [Tasks and responsibilities of the occupational health physician employed in health services].
abstract: The paper describes and comments on the juridical rôle and duties of the occupational health physician operating in Local Health Units, drawing attention to the peculiar and complex structure of the health measures taken in the workplace, which must often be extended from strictly medical and preventive aims to regulations and sanctions in respect of the enterprise and obligation of notification to the legal authorities. In order to fulfill these duties of public administrator and legal inspector, the occupational health physician requires a specific and integrated cultural background, i.e., in clinical medicine and biological science, jurisprudence and forensic medicine. Such cultural background is indispensable to ensure a correct "modus operandi", where the safeguarding of health in the interests of both the individual and the community is inextricably bound up with fundamental juridical and regulatory requirements.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000078329:Workforce
vernacular_title: Compiti e responsabilità del medico del lavoro nelle USSL.