[Preventing measures facilitate the preservation of the levels of employment].
The implementation of the European Directive No 391/89, among the other news, introduced the obligation for the occupational physician to actively participate to the assessment of risks. The reduction of the incidence of "historical" professional pathologies and the arising of work-related disease is making the role of the occupational physician, in the survey and risk assessment, ever more important, especially in consideration of the physiological and biomechanical peculiar competences required. In addition, a correct risk assessment allows to optimise the valorisation of human resources. The occupational physician, in other terms, can not only protect the health of workers, but "save" jobs too. The survey carried out in a logistic unit of a large-scale distributors group, documented herein, can give evidence of that.
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Sicurezza e salute sas, Chiaravalle, Ancona. info@sicurezzaesalute.org
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D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health; D000078329:Workforce