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.
Preventing verbal and physical aggression against public-facing workers: theory, techniques and tools
Working with the public can expose workers to critical incidents, including encounters with aggressive and provocative individuals. A person displaying aggressive behaviour is typically someone who does not feel understood and expresses this distress through their actions. Workers need to recognise these situations promptly and prevent episodes of uncontrolled anger and aggressive escalation.
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 […]
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”.