title: [The protection of health in law enforcement].
abstract: Herein the question of health protection/safety and well being in the Law Enforcement is introduced and includes examples of some particular risk conditions that may be multiple and polymorphous. Not only the "traditional" sources are involved in these risks, like chemical, physical and biological agents, but other issues emerge in these "new scenarios" connected to risk factors involving organization and/or psychosocial elements. From this, we may deduce that there is a specific need for all the operators involved in prevention/care in this particular sector to be well versed on the highest possible updated specialized knowledge along with having a complete and thorough mastery of the best practices in Occupational Medicine to face this task in the correct manner:
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Sanità Pubblica e Pediatriche, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. enrico.pira@unito.it
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pira
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D035846:Law Enforcement; D009676:Noxae; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D017751:Safety Management; D014754:Violence
chemical_list: D009676:Noxae