Factors Affecting Asbestosis Mortality Among Asbestos-Cement Workers in Italy.

Objectives: This study was performed with the aim of investigating the temporal patterns and determinants associated with mortality from asbestosis among 21 cohorts of Asbestos-Cement (AC) workers who were heavily exposed to asbestos fibres.

Methods: Mortality for asbestosis was analysed for a cohort of 13 076 Italian AC workers (18.1% women).

[Mortality study in a cohort of workers employed in the hot working processing of plastics and rubber].

Objectives: to study mortality rates among workers in companies manufacturing thermoplastic and rubber articles (excluding tyres).

Design: cohort study.

Setting And Participants: the cohort includes 4,543 workers employed up to 2000 in 131 companies in the Province of Bologna (Emilia-Romagna Region, Northern Italy) exposed to emissions from hot processing of plastics (3,937) and rubber (606).

[Determinants of occupational injuries in the construction of the "high speed train" Bologna-Florence].

Objective: to study determinants of occupational injuries in tunnel construction using data from the surveillance system which had been implemented in order to monitor accidents during the construction of the "high speed train tracks in the Italian Regions Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany.

Design: retrospective cohort study.

Setting: 16 sites for the construction of 14 tunnels of the high speed railway-tract Bologna-Firenze, in Italy.