[Norms and responsibilities of the occupational physician in psychosocial risks management].
The activity of the occupational physician is one of the key elements for the management of psychosocial risk factor in companies, specifically in the healthcare system. The introduction of laws and agreements between the social partners regarding work-related stress have recently brought the attention upon further issues for the physician to work on. The role of the occupational physician is particularly important in the process of risk assessment, in informing and training the personnel as well as managing the more clinical aspects of the problem. The tasks and responsibilities of the occupational physician are therefore analysed in their more practical aspects, with particular attention to the currently evolving normative context, and are thereafter inserted into the field of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
Istituto Clinico Humanitas, I.R.C.C.S. Rozzano, Milano. Italy.
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D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011322:Primary Prevention; D012308:Risk Management; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055512:Tertiary Prevention