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.
Psychological health in corporate organisations: managing psychosocial risks in accordance with ISO 45003
In an increasingly fast-paced and complex world of work, psychological health is central to ensuring worker wellbeing and safety. ISO 45003 provides specific guidelines for identifying and managing psychosocial risks — aspects of work organisation, management and interpersonal relations that can generate stress, dissatisfaction and psychological distress, with negative effects on both mental health and […]
Effective communication for workplace safety: techniques and strategies for a safe and productive working environment
Effective communication is an essential skill in every work context and plays an even more critical role in workplace safety. The ability to convey and receive information clearly and accurately can make the difference between preventing an incident and allowing it to happen. Poor communication, by contrast, can cause misunderstandings, errors and hazardous situations.
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.
Criminal liability of the RSPP for workplace accidents and occupational diseases
Thirty years after the RSPP (Head of the Prevention and Protection Service) was introduced, it is time for a retrospective on the advantages and drawbacks of this legislative change — particularly from a practical and organisational standpoint. In a field that constantly balances the urgency of effective workplace prevention against the threat of consequences for […]
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 […]