[Disability management in the international context: a systematic review of reviews]. / L'uso del Disability Management in contesti internazionali: revisione sistematica di revisioni.

SUMMARY: Background. Disability Management (DM) was born to improve workers' health and to optimize return to work for people with disabilities. Objectives. The objective of this study was to elaborate a review of reviews published in literature on the use of Disability Management in international contexts and the strategies used to facilitate the return to work for individuals with cronic disabilities or post injury. Methods. The present review was carried out by consulting the Pubmed and Scopus database from 1994 to January 2021, according to the PRISMA guidelines. Initially, the duplicates were removed. Then, the eligible studies were selected through a multistep approach (title evaluation, abstract and full-text). The systematic reviews were evaluated using the AMSTAR method, while for the narrative reviews the INSA scale was used. Results. The research produced 186 results. Following the removal of the duplicates and articles with no available or not pertinent full text, 51 reviews were included: 17 systematic and 34 narrative. The analyzed studies were related to the DM policies of the United States, Canada and UK. Ten topics emerged, the most frequent ones including: possible solutions to adopt in the event of workers with musculo-skeletal diseases (50% of the studies); legal matters regarding issues of mental health and stress (41.2%). The quality of the articles was generally high. Discussion. The systematic review showed that the research activity on DM is conducted mainly in the Anglo-Saxon world. This review can give some interesting insights for the full implementation of DM at the national level.

[Workplace injuries in micro and small enterprises in the period 2013-2015 in the province of Rome (Italy)]. / Infortuni sul lavoro nelle micro e piccole imprese nel periodo 2013-2015 in provincia di Roma.

SUMMARY: Background. Micro and small enterprises (MSE) have fewer than 10 and 50 employees, and an annual balance sheet total that does not exceed € 2million and 10 million, respectively. Aim. To assess injuries in the micro and small enterprises in the Province of Rome in the period 2013-2015. Methods. In this study MSEs of the Confederazione Nazionale dell'artigianato piccole e medie imprese (CNA) of Rome were randomly selected. Results. In 290 MSEs sampled, 7 workplace injuries occurred, 3 in the same enterprise (PVC window frames, one injury per year) and the others occurred in an orthopaedic laboratory, in a store for building construction, in a cleaning company and in a company plant. The injury rate was 5.93‰ in three years (i.e., 1.97‰ per year on average). Conclusions. Workplace injuries in MSEs in the Province of Rome is not relevant (almost 2‰ per year), if compared to the injury rates in the Lazio region and the national level.