title: [Instruments for updating the occupational physician activities].
abstract: In this article the SIMLII (Italian Society of Industrial Medicine and Industrial Hygiene) experience about the production of Guide Lines during the last 5 years is evaluated at the light of the new Framework Act for the occupational safety and health "Decreto legislativo 81/08" signed by the President of the Italian Republic on April 9, 2008. This legislative act for the first time includes and defines in a legislative act the different possible instruments (technical normative, good practices, guide lines) for updating the activities of occupational physician. Some aspects related to definitions, significance, production of guide lines, consensus conference reports, good practices statements are presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Applicata, Sezione di Medicina del lavoro e Igiene Industriale, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy. apostoli@med.unibs.it
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Apostoli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Catalani
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D007558:Italy; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000592:standards*