The principal contractor in temporary and mobile construction sites: liability profiles and relations with other prevention actors

Legislative Decree 81/2008 introduced — or more precisely, specified and enhanced — the scope of liability for a new employer figure within temporary and mobile construction sites: the principal contractor (impresa affidataria), defined as “the company holding the contract with the client that, in carrying out the contracted works, may engage subcontractors or self-employed workers”.

Workplace accident handbook: from the judicial police inspection to the determination of liability at trial

Managing an administrative or judicial police inspection in occupational safety is perhaps the most sensitive stage in establishing potential regulatory violations and identifying the responsible parties. It is at this stage that evidence of the offence is gathered, but also when critical decisions are taken to secure the inspected premises by imposing compliance orders to […]

Application of the Construction Sites Directive in civil and industrial maintenance works

Title IV of Legislative Decree 81/2008 defines a temporary and mobile construction site as any location where building or civil engineering works are carried out, as further specified in Annex X — namely “construction, maintenance, repair, demolition, conservation, renovation, restructuring, equipping, conversion, renewal or dismantling works on fixed, permanent or temporary structures, in masonry, reinforced […]