ABSTRACT
Assessing psychosocial factors in occupational environment requires complicated procedures according to most methods. The project of Tuscany region has the aim to realize a free computerized instrument for a gradual risk assessment with two different modes, expert and beginner. A decisional flow chart helps to approach the risk assessment step by step on the basis of company features, management and organization problems and company symptoms of stress. This experience means a proposal of a computerized method for a quantitative assessment of psychosocial risks at workplace, but at the same time offers a detailed analysis of the problems in the organization suggesting different priority to solve them.
Subject(s)
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted/legislation & jurisprudence , Occupational Diseases/diagnosis , Occupational Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Stress, Psychological/diagnosis , Humans , Italy , SoftwareABSTRACT
Were examined 60 documents of chemical risk assessment of companies from 19 municipalities in the provinces of Siena and Grosseto. The review of evaluations was conducted initially by checking the internal coherence of the documents. What emerged was subsequently analyzed together with the staff who performed the inspection. Although in 12 companies has been declared the presence of carcinogens, in only 5 the evaluation of exposure have been done using measures, others have used models or other techniques. Overall assessment showed that only 8 out of 60 (13.3%) were wrote correctly.