Effective time management: tools and strategies for wellbeing and workplace safety
In an increasingly dynamic and demanding work environment, effective time management is essential for boosting productivity, reducing stress and promoting organisational wellbeing. Poor time management can lead to work overload, fatigue, inefficiency and a higher risk of errors and accidents.
Liability of the RSPP and external consultants
The legislation assigns specific responsibilities to designated roles within the corporate organisation. In particular, ongoing compliance with prevention obligations is also ensured through internal consultants (as provided for by the legislation itself) and external consultants, who must be qualified and actively involved in corporate processes.
Legislative Decree 231/2001 and offences relating to the environment and safety: from management system governance to OdV inspection and oversight
A management system addressing offences under Legislative Decree 231/2001 (environment and safety) has become a necessity — and in some cases an obligation — for companies. It calls for specific expertise in environmental law, occupational health and safety, and in managing procedures, roles and inspection controls.
Duties and responsibilities in the company: delegations, sub-delegations and organisational documents
A perennial challenge in organising occupational health and safety within a company is assigning appropriate powers at the right functional level to ensure adequate management of obligations. The placement and exercise of decision-making and managerial powers is, moreover, the paradigm underpinning the fundamental principles for attributing criminal liability.
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 […]
Contract management: coordination obligations, DUVRI and applicable regulations
Article 26 of Legislative Decree 81/2008, elaborating on earlier legislation on obligations related to contracts, works and supply agreements, introduced — among other provisions — the requirement for the client employer to promote cooperation and coordination by preparing a single interference risk assessment document (DUVRI). This provision mandates a specific document to be annexed 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 […]
Risk Assessment Document (DVR): the essential tool for building workplace safety — parties involved, responsibilities of the employer, management and RSPP
When the risk assessment obligation was first introduced, companies sought to comply by balancing the need to understand the “philosophy” behind this new requirement with the need to identify the precise contents of the associated document. In the years since, there has been a gradual decline in the priority given to this topic, with the […]