title: [Management of the visual risk in VDT workers and the role of the occupational physician (Medico competente)].
abstract: The enormous increasing of computer use in work activities has carried great progresses and many other advantages, but it has brought also possible health problems for the workers. The occupational risk in VDT workers involves the visual system, work-related muscoloskeletal disorders and also the mental state. This article concerns the major problems related to the obligations of the employer and to health surveillance, with special care to ophtalmologist examination for the ability, the responsibility and duty of occupational physicians (medici competenti) and the possible role of the ophthalmologists.
authors.affiliation: Ordinario di Igiene, Università degli Studi di Parma--Medico competente. carlo.signorelli@unipr.it
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Signorelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lepratto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Summa
mesh_terms: D016288:Computer Terminals; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D009885:Ophthalmology; D010819:Physician's Role; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011996:Records; D012308:Risk Management