Policies and Toxicological Screenings for No Drug Addiction: An Example from the Civil Aviation Workforce.

Introduction: Since 2008, Italian legislators, with the aim of ensuring public safety, have made it mandatory for an occupational doctor (OD) to assess specific categories of workers to exclude those who may have consumed drugs of abuse. Due to the relevance of work activities relating to the civil aviation and airport sector, a policy based on the use of training and information tools, as well as a health surveillance protocol, has been undertaken since 2009.

Materials And Methods: A total of 61,008 workers at a commercial airline underwent health surveillance between 2009 and 2019.

[Early signs of occupational ototoxicity caused by inhalation of benzene derivative industrial solvents].

People exposed to industrial solvents may suffer from disturbances of different psycho-physiological and vestibulo-oculomotor function. Therefore an investigation was performed testing vestibular and oculomotor reactions in workers exposed to solvents. It also seemed to be of interest to study if the auditory pathways were affected in these workers.