The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality in Pavia, Northern Italy: Updated Estimates for the Year 2021.

Excess mortality estimates are considered relevant indicators of direct and indirect pandemic effects on the population. Scant data have been published on cause-specific excess mortality. Using individual-level administrative data covering the Pavia province of Italian northern Lombardy region, we provided all-cause and cause-specific raw (RMR) and age-standardized (ASMR) mortality rates in 2021 and 2015-2019, the rate ratio, and 95% confidence intervals, overall and by sex.

[Occupational diseases caused by artificial optical radiation (AOR)].

Background: Italian national legislation guarantees safety and health for workers exposed to artificial optical radiations (AOR) by Legislative Decree 81/2008.

Objectives And Methods: Effects and damages to health resulting from AOR exposure were analyzed from literature data.

Results: Ultraviolet radiations (UV), particularly those in the wavelength range between 220 and 310 nm, causes chronic conjunctivitis and kerato-conjunctivitis.

[Operative guidelines for the shoe industry: risk assessment and environmental hygiene].

Considering the most relevant factors for occupational safety and health, the Safety Check application in the footwear industry makes little and medium size factories employers able to carry out risk assessment. However, in specific cases, it is necessary to achieve an in-depth evaluation.

[Psychoactive drugs and fitness to drive in the occupational field].

According to/After the conferences taken place on 30th October and on 18th December 2008, the company doctor functions have been enlarged: at present they include the duty of effectuating toxicological tests in order to find psychotropic and drug substances in some specific working classes, mainly in workers employed in public transports. Company doctors have the duty to report any possible positive matching in these workers'tests. From there, regulations in force are analyzed focusing to critical situations described in the complex and well articulated frame of reference.