[Collaboration of the occupational physician for risk assessment activities in work environment]

In Italy, the legislative Decree n. 81/2008 (and further modifications) foresee the obligation, with relative sanction, for the "competent physician" to collaborate with the employer and the person responsible of the service of prevention and protection to the evaluation of the risks in the places of job. Objective of the present job is to give indications that allow the physician to acquit with correctness the obligation, looking for an equilibrium among the dictated normative and the resources to his/her disposition. For small and medium-sized companies, some activities developed by the physician can determine the real collaboration to the evaluation of the risks: periodic inspections; recording of the evaluations of the workers; planning of the biological monitoring; execution of the sanitary overseeing; epidemiological elaboration of the data of the sanitary overseeing; you meet with the employer etc. In the great farms the collaboration of the competent physician to the evaluation of the risks should culminate in the predisposition of a specific document Such document could compose him some followings sections: indication of the working risks; evaluation of the risks for the pregnant workers; evaluation of the risk job-correlated stress; analysis on the problem list alcohol and job; collaboration to the organization of the service of first help; analysis of the accident coarse; collaboration to the realization of programs of information; collaboration to the realization of programs of promotion of the health; layout of the sanitary plan; measures of prevention and protection necessary.