title: [Analysis of accidents at work in building yards: correlation between risk and law defaults in yards of Palermo].
abstract: In the last years the building firm underwent real boom for investments and workers but not for safety measures. In the building sector there is a great accidents risks for falls from the top. The aim of present study is to analyze trend of accidents at work in building yards according to INAIL DATA and we will identify causes and risks then we will correlate these risks with frequent law defaults that we noticed in the province of Palermo. At the end we will value possible preventive measures to avoid this phenomenon. DATA INAIL of period 2001-2005 about building sector show us a reduction of denounced accidents at work but this phenomenon is changeable. Palermo is the first sicilian province for accidents at work although the number of denounced accidents (from 2001 to 2005) is decreasing while this number in Catania is increasing, CPT of Palermo gave us data (from 2004 to 2006) about inspections in building yards. Our study interests 609 yards and 1827 work stages. We noticed the most number of rests in civil yards.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e delle Patologie Emergenti, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via del Vespro 143, Palermo. dr.arcadipane@gmail.com
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arcadipane
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Verso
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schillaci
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Picciotto
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007558:Italy; D012307:Risk Factors