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.
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.
Stress management: techniques and tools
Work-related stress has a significant impact on workers’ health, wellbeing and safety. Left unmanaged, it can undermine productivity, increase the risk of errors and accidents, and damage the organisational climate.
Emotional intelligence in safety management
Workplace safety depends not only on technical procedures and regulations but also on workers’ ability to perceive, interpret and respond effectively to hazardous situations. This is where emotional intelligence comes in — the ability to recognise, understand and manage one’s own emotions and those of others.
Soft skills for workplace safety and wellbeing
In every professional setting, effectiveness, safety and wellbeing depend not only on technical skills but also on people’s ability to manage relationships, emotions and critical situations. Soft skills — such as self-awareness, emotional intelligence, effective communication and stress management — are now recognised as key drivers for improving individual and collective performance, preventing workplace accidents […]
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 […]
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 […]