Citation

Apostoli P. G. Ital. Med. Lav. Ergon. 2012; 34(3 Suppl): 458-461.

Vernacular Title

Il Medico Competente del Lavoro, consulente globale in azienda

Affiliation

Ordinario di Medicina del Lavoro, Università degli Studi di Brescia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, PI-ME Editrice)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23405689

Abstract

Work, Occupational Medicine, legislative framework are in a deep and wipe transformation. To be able to adequately the occupational physician is requested to improve and update his professional capability, in a correct relationships between laws and normative and technical good practices. Anther crucial point appears his ability to support all the aspects involving the health protection and promotion in workplaces: form project or organization of new productions, to risk evaluation and management, to health surveillance and occupational epidemiology, to legal actions. In other words the occupational physician as a global consultant for employers ad for employees. Strategic in this perspective are the instruments (guidelines, protocols, consensus documents, technical assessments) for qualifying and updating the professionals, for which the scientific societies have a central tole.

Language: it