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 […]