title: [Health surveillance in construction].
abstract: In the Italian and international literature there are very few studies about work diseases and their prevention in the construction's compartment. The analysis of the most recent articles about this theme, however, suggests the presence of an high professional risk in the compartment and indicates as the most relevant risk factors noise, dusts, fibres, manual lifting, prolonged fixed postures, cumulative trauma disorders, vibrations, chemical substances and climatic conditions. The role that extra-lavorative risk factors can play on health is also relevant; those risks are due to the workers' peculiar life-style: hyper caloric diet, smoke and use of alcohol. Interventions of medical hygienic prevention, formation and information are therefore necessary. Lombardy Region, which from many years is careful to the problems about the prevention in building yards, has created a Working party who has elaborated the "Guide Lines for the sanitary surveillance in the building industry". The indications reported in the Guide Lines could represent, even for the occupational-doctors of the building contractors of the New Hospital, a good base for the working out of the workers' health care activity, in the respect of the dues of the law in force.
authors.affiliation: Unità Ospedaliera di Medicina del Lavoro, Azienda Ospedaliera, Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Borleri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pomesano
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Belotti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Leghissa
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mosconi
mesh_terms: D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000592:standards*; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*