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RESEARCH PRODUCT
SARS-CoV-2 and the Risk Assessment Document in Italian Work: Specific or Generic Risk Even If Aggravated?
Emanuele CannizzaroVenerando RapisardaWalter MazzuccoLuigi CirrincioneRosanna Provenzanosubject
medicine.medical_specialtyChinaoccupational medicineHealth Toxicology and Mutagenesislcsh:MedicineLegislationReviewSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataRisk AssessmentOccupational safety and healthOccupational medicine03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineCOVID-19 Decree 81/2008 Law Occupational medicine Prevention and protection measures Risk assessment document Work China Humans Italy Risk Assessment COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2workEnvironmental healthPandemicmedicineHumansprevention and protection measures030212 general & internal medicinelawChina0303 health sciences030306 microbiologySARS-CoV-2lcsh:RPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthCOVID-19medicine.diseasedecree 81/2008Work (electrical)Italyrisk assessment documentAtypical pneumoniaBusinessRisk assessmentdescription
In December 2019, several cases of atypical pneumonia were detected in Wuhan city, Hubei province, inland China. The initial outbreak was of considerable size first in China subsequently spread to the rest of the world. Immediately after the epidemic (which according to the World Health Organization had risen to pandemic status), the problem of whether or not to update the occupational risk assessment arose, also considering how the biological risk from SARS CoV-2 should be understood: specific or generic. To this end, we conducted a literature review to identify national health legislation and policies, examining how Italy has addressed the COVID-19 emergency in occupational health planning, in order to develop considerations on the need to update the Risk Assessment Document following the pandemic status. The data that emerged from the review of current legislation allowed us to conclude that the risk from SARS-CoV-2 is in most work activities to be understood as a generic or aggravated generic risk, requiring the employer to apply and control the preventive measures suggested by health authorities to contain the spread of the virus.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-01 |