[In-depth assessment of work-related stress in a major company undergoing restructuring].

Background: An in-depth assessment of work-related stress was conducted in a major national telecommunications company undergoing major changes. The assessment was made on three homogeneous groups of workers and covered a large representative sample of the corresponding populations.

Objectives: To identify the main sources of stress for the three populations of workers, stimulate a discussion on the possible corrective actions, and assess the impact of the on-going organizational changes on workers' health.

[The regions' contribution to assessment of work-related stress: an operative guide].

In order to formulate indications for work-related stress assessment established by Italian health and safety regulation (D.Lgs. 81/2008), the interregional technical committee has instituted a working group to define an operative guide.

[The occupational and active research, diagnosis and reporting of occupational diseases].

The Occupational Doctor plays a key role on the protection of workers safety and prevention of occupational and work-related disease. His training and his need of updating, due to the constant transformation of work, the evolution of technology and the medical progress, set him in the center of all activities carried out to protect health in workplaces. The Occupational Doctor should devote special attention to the working anamnesis as well as to the pathological anamnesis both close and remote.

[Register of exposed to carcinogens].

Law Decree 626/94 already provided for the "register of exposed subjects" to be implemented by employer once the presence of cancerogenic agents falling into the definition of the norm itself have been assessed in working activities. The lack of an effective decree identifying the models and modalities of register keeping has led so far to an exposure under-evaluation. Of course the coming into force of Ministerial Decree 155/2007, almost at the same time as the new body of regulations made up by Law Decree 81/2008, stimulated the addressees to proceed with setting an exposure register to be forwarded to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL) and to the competent inspection authority.

[The activity of the Service for Prevention and Safety in Workplaces of the Health Local Agency of Rome C towards the "competent physicians" in the enterprises of the territory].

In the past seven years the Service for Prevention and Safety in Workplaces of the Health Local Agency of Rome C set out some activities towards the occupational physicians (so-called "competent physicians") of three different kinds: control and surveillance, institutional activities on demand and activities for quality improvement. In the first ambit we conducted some investigations on the procedures of the workers' medical surveillance and the role of competent physicians in the risk evaluation inside three different intervention projects (monitoring the enforcement of the D.Lgs.