The principal regulations on the security of work
The field of the industrial medicine is regulated by particularly combined regulations and in this section of the site you can find the texts of the principal laws and decrees, a more thorough list you can find in the site Environment and Right to this link
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In the following you can consult some of the most representative laws that regulate the industrial medicine and the security of working places.
D.Lgs. 9 april 2008 nr. 81
Legislative decree 9 April 2008, n. 81
"Implementation of article 1 of law 3 August 2007, n. 123, in matter of protection of the health and the security on the working places"
Published in the Official Gazette n. 101 of 30 April 2008
Ordinary Appendix n. 108/L
Thanks to the law 123/2007 that reorganizes the regulations in matter of protection of the health and the security on the working places, after the sign of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, is published the Legislative Decree n. 81 del 09 April 2008.
This decree substitutes the law 626/94.
The 81 therefore will be remembered from now on as the number that will be occupied with the security at work in the same mode in which was referred to '626' like the law for security at work
The principal titles of measures regarding working environments, the equipments and the DPI /Individual Protection Devices/, the physical agents (noise, mechanical vibrations, electromagnetic fields, optical radiations, etc.), the dangerous substance (chemical agents, carcinogenic substances, etc.), the biological agents and explosive atmosphere, the system of signs, the video terminals.
Legislative decree 106 / 2009
Legislative decree 20 August 2009, n. 106
Text of the law, in force since 20 August 2009, which supplements and corrects the Unique-text law Legislative Decree nr. 81/08. Numerous changes in the sanctions applied, but there are also other significant changes in safety management
Legislative decree 151 / 2001
Legislative decree 26 March 2001, n. 151
Unique-text law about protection and support for maternity and paternity, establishing rights of working mothers, pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. Item is the work restrictions in relation to the risks which the woman is exposed.
Legislative decree 25 / 2002
Legislative decree 2 February 2002, n. 25
" Implementation of the directive 98/24/CE on the protection of the health and the security of the workers against the risks coming from chemical agents during work"
published in the Official Gazette n. 57 of 8 March 2002 -
SOrdinary Appendix n. 40 (Rectification G.U. n. 83 of 9 April 2002)
This law decree treats in particular the health of the workers and the security of the working environments in connection with the risk coming from the usage of particular chemical agents noxious for the health.
Legislative decree 626 / 1994
Legislative decree 19 September 1994, n. 626
Implementation of the directives 89/391/CEE, 89/654/CEE, 89/655/CEE, 89/656/CEE, 90/269/CEE, 90/270/CEE, 90/394/CEE and 90/679/CEE regarding the improvement of the security and the health of the workers on working place.
published in the Official Gazette n. 265 of 12 November 1994 ordinary supplement nr. 141
It is the fundamental law on which is based the industrial medicine and the security of working places and in particular prescribes measures for protection of the health and for the security of workers during work, in all sectors of private or public activity.
Legislative decree 195 / 2006
Legislative Decree 10 April 2006, n. 195
Implementation of the directives 2003/10/CE relative to exposure of workers to risks coming from physical agents (noise).
Regulations that regulate the verifications, the measures of protection, the obligations expected for all the professional figures of the industrial medicine (employers, managers, persons in charge, workers, competent doctor) in working environments in which there is exposure to harmful physical agents with particular reference to the noise.
Various documents on security on working places
You can consult the following documents, considered useful for clarify particular aspects of security of working environments:
ACCIDENTS AT WORK –THE RESPONSIBLE SUBJECTSIN THE LAW 626/94
The law 626 / 1994 provides in accurate mode a chain in the security of working environments in which every ring, represented by an element of the company from the employer to the worker itself, have their obligations, tasks and duties.
This documents permits to identify the responsible subjects in the security of work in the working environments indicating the respective tasks to perform.
THE SANITARY SURVEILLANCE OF THE WORKERS: OBLIGATIONS FOR THE COMPANY.
The sanitary surveillance represents one of the general measures of guardianship for the protection of the health of the workers exposed to professional risks able to determine the beginning of the harmful effects.
This document refers to actual obligations of the law on sanitary surveillance (preventive and periodical medical examinations) of the workers.
GUIDING LINES for the valuation of the noise risk at working environments
Important document in reference, spread directly by the ISPSEL /Superior Institute Prevention and Security at Work/ in collaboration with the principal experts in the sector of industrial medicine, regarding the noise risks on working places.
Apart from this extremely complete and detailed document, filled with explicative tables, you can consult the section of the site of ISPSEL /Superior Institute Prevention and Security at Work/ constantly updated regarding the noise risk on the working places at
Ministerial Decree 388 / 2003
Regulation regarding dispositions on company’s first aid, in implementation of the article 15, comma 3, from legislative decree 19 September 1994, n. 626, and following modifications.
Ministerial Decree 10 marzo 1998
General standards of antifire security and for the management of emergency in the working places
Law 3 August 2007 number 123
Measures in subject of protection of the health and security at work and delegation to the Government for the rearrangement and the reform of the regulations in matter
Scheme of agreement by meanings of article 8, comma 6, from law 5 June 2003, n. 131, in matter of ascertainment the absence of drug addiction.
The scheme of agreement, published on 30 October 2007, establishes which are the functions and the duties that involve risks for the own security, safety and health and of third persons, also in reference to occasional assumption of narcotic substances for which is requested periodical exams of the worker in order to ascertain the absence of usage of narcotic substances (drug addicts) and the abuse of alcohol or alcoholic substances in general (alcoholics).
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