Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia
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G Ital Med Lav Ergon · Jan 2006
[Accident risk perception in high-voltage electrical maintenance workers].
Promoting safety at work represents a fundamental task for achieving improvement in the quality of working life and preventing accidental injuries at work. Nevertheless, over the last few decades injuries at work have continued to constitute a significant problem. ⋯ Findings show that electricity (current variability) was perceived as the most serious risk factor, while the most frequent perceived risk factors for accidents were accidental falls, cuts and bruises. The subjects of our sample showed a good awareness of risk perception, and good mood response and augmented psychophysiological activation during accidental injuries.
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G Ital Med Lav Ergon · Jan 2006
[Health emergencies and first aid at construction sites in the Tuscany Region. The high speed and varying free way of Valico].
From 1996 the territory of Tuscany region and in particular that one of ASL 10 of Florence, has been interested from the realization of great works: the railway line to High Speed and varying of Valico of the A1 freeway between Florence and Bologna. ASL 10 has stipulated specific economic agreements with the been involved companies in the realization of the plans for a plan finalized to the prevention of the industrial accidents and to limit of the gravity with timely aids it adapts to you also in gallery, to guarantee to the workers the same performances sanitary of the city residents, to guarantee and to improve the quality of existing sanitary services on the territories in spite of the increase of the population weighing on the consequent territory to the takeover of the workers it engages to you in the realization of the great works. This plan has been realized with the creation of integrated aid system a to strengthen the territorial sanitary emergency, I extend the access to the base medicine to the workers and has not been able itself to answer to 93% of the question sanitary to the inside of the same yards with the infirmaries of yard without to resort to external structures.