[Alcohol and construction workers].

Background And Objectives: On the basis of the data drawn by national and international literature and the introduction of recent legislation concerning "alcohol and alcohol-related problems", we studied alcohol consumption and the consequences that alcohol abuse has on health, working ability, accidents and absenteeism in construction workers.

Methods: We studied alcohol consumption in two groups of building workers over different periods (1996-2000; 2006). In 142 workers alcohol concentration was measured in expired air during the periodic health surveillance examination and during work on building sites.

[Efficacy of periodic health surveillance of construction workers visited at the CPT of Bergamo].

The aim of this work is to expose the results obtained with the application of a model about efficacy in occupational medicine proposed by ALMLII. In particular we discuss the validity of some indicators of efficacy used in a large group of construction workers during health surveillance, in order to verify effectiveness and appropriateness of an occupational medicine service, as a part of the whole prevention and safety system.