@article{ref1,
title="The occupational medicine specialist and prevention",
journal="Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia",
year="2012",
author="Marano, G.",
volume="34",
number="3 Suppl",
pages="469-470",
abstract="The specialist who is appointed by an employer as a competent physician in an occupational medicine service, has been charged of new public legal tasks, as a result of the changes introduced by Legislative Decree No. 81/08, setting him in a direct relationship with the National Health Service; in particular the Article 40 of decree 81 assigns a strategic role for prevention of new occupational diseases and injuries to the competent physician, as a primary source of epidemiological information, able to bring out &quot;sentinel events&quot; in the population of workers undergoing health surveillance, by the communication to the relevant public health services of combined aggregate data as required by Annex 3B. In a second step such information shall be processed and analyzed on a national scale by Italian Workers'Compensation Authority (INAIL), in order to improve the knowledge useful to a more effective and prompt prevention. The new possibility, introduced by Legislative Decree 106/09, to carry out pre-employment visits as a part of health surveillance, allows the competent physician to establish the fitness to the work of involved persons, a task that was previously assigned by law 300/70 to public bodies only, allowing him to check for alcohol and drug addiction at such stage too, provided the involvement of public health facilities of II level (referred to State/Regions Agreement of September 18, 2008) for relevant clinical examinations for verification purposes.<p /> <p>Language: it</p>",
language="it",
issn="1592-7830",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}