RESUMEN
The rising awareness of psychosocial risks at workplace means that it is ever more important to prepare methods to assess psychosocial factors in occupational environment. This project of north west tuscany area has the aim to realize an instrument for a gradual risk assessment for this kind of factors without the support of specialists. A decisional flow chart helps to approach the risk assessment step by step on the basis of company features, management and organization problems and company symptoms of stress. The final assessment combines the evaluation of perceived risks with job analysis realizing a matrix containing 5 risk levels, which suggests the priority of preventive measures. The intermediate level (level three) represents the activation level for the medical surveillance. This experience means a proposal for a quantitative assessment of psychosocial risks at workplace.
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Salud Laboral , Medición de Riesgo/métodos , Lugar de Trabajo , Árboles de Decisión , Humanos , ItaliaRESUMEN
This document describes the observatory on working women in Livorno area. The sources of information are 1) individual information sheets collected from midwives with a specially designed questionnaire for all pregnant women from 1/4/2003 to 30/12/2006 2) data from the procedures of interdiction for risk work. The analysis of data sheets shows the following information: 9% of pregnant women are foreign and 70% are workers. The sectors where women are mainly employed are the following: Administrative (34%), Commerce (17%), Health (10%), Cleaning (6%), School (4%), Metal Industry (3%), Hair stylists (2%), Food (2%). The analysis of data by procedure of interdiction for risk work shows that the most represented sectors are: Commerce (20%), Health (14%), Cleaning (22%), Metal Industry (21%), School (12%, Hair stylists (8%) and Food (3%). There is an evident increase in the number of women who come to our occupational health service and in the number of interdiction of risk work. However there are still problems in some critical areas with predominantly female workforce (cleaning, commerce) and in case of foreign workers and women with insecure contracts.