The world of work should always have two fundamental aspects in mind safety and health. A combination that between injuries and accidents (often fatal) in the workplace and the recent variable covid is always on the agenda, but, equally, always difficult to solve.
The approach, sometimes, is not the best, to move the ranks are fear or fear of being subject to inspection and, therefore, the risk of falling into some sanctioning measure.
Sicurya professionals they are specialized precisely in the field of safety in the workplace and have recently expressed themselves on the issue, deepening some aspects.
Safety at work, how much awareness and how much culture?
In principle, and reluctantly, the problem would always seem the same, we move towards the “security” question only and always for one reason only, to try, in any way, to do not face a sanction. It is easy to imagine how such a method can obviously be counterproductive, unrealistic and approximate.
Each company should be able to have, within its staff, competent members who have in their parterre of skills a well-established familiarity with regard to safety at work. The classic approach is to conceal irregularities as if the dirt were hiding under the carpet, obviously this, besides being useless, also turns out to be a very damaging attempt.
What should be sought, however, should be a determined and structural security system: without one well-defined planning results are unlikely to be achieved, on the contrary, the risk would be that of running into an even higher bill, a prospect that could lead any company to bankruptcy.
Marcello Doria Cerroni, in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, leads us to the discovery of figure of the competent doctor:
Safety at work and the need for a systemic approach
This, according to the insiders, should be the way, it is the system idea that should be considered to understand how every single detail is essential if included in the whole. It could be said that we are all in the same boat, managers and employers, but also employees, all are called to row in the same and unique direction.
As well as professional successes (and losses) have the merit of being shared, so the same discourse should be established with regard to issues relating to health and safety in the workplace.
To be clear: the achievement of a goal passes to everyone, including the competent doctor, who boasts the vocation and mission of directing other interpreters and indicating them the ideal itinerary to follow.
Safety at work, the doctor’s mission
The doctor has a noble task, that of make available a contribution of value: it should be involved in various circumstances, also to interest the company in the management dynamics. We are faced, there is no doubt in this regard, of one of the professionals that could make a valid contribution to shape a safety culture that is truly valid.
It is up to the competent doctor, for example, help in the prevention of accidents in the workplace and the management of pathologies related to the profession. What should be taken into consideration is an organically position in relation to safety and health at work.
Employers and companies should make use of competent doctors to ensure that each work environment is healthy and protected.
Safety at work, when the competent doctor makes the difference
He is a protagonist who plays a key role, his contribution to the company could be decisive.
Obviously this figure is not to be considered as an imposition to approach as a thorn in the side to be dismissed as soon as possible, far from it: the candidate to whom this task is assigned should be selected with extreme clarity and attention, since not only the fate of the workers, their health and their safety, but also the fate of the whole society.
The competent perspective of the doctor will be appropriate to outline the preventive rules that will be used in the workplace; in addition, this undisputed protagonist will be considered essential for the choice of individual protection equipment and for the provisions that must be followed for their use.
On several occasions, the protection devices that will be selected will prove to be nothing short of uncomfortable, or even as completely inadequate: it is evident that in circumstances of this type the employees will move seas and mountains in order to avoid the use of mandatory devices.
The consequences can be clearly hypothesized. The doctor’s mission will be to encourage the spread of the culture of safety.
Safety at work and Sicurya, what to know
Since the beginnings of Sicurya, the safety in the workplace it has posed itself at the heart of its business: not a mere matter of an economic nature, but also an ethical burden. With the passage of time, actions and actions have been constantly expanding operations in the field of safety engineering, and the same could be said for the consultancy side.
A clearly explanatory detail: since it reveals how the mood that has been carried out throughout the history of the company is undoubtedly in line with the needs of customers and their requests. The service can only be said to be functional and impeccable.
Safety at work, a long history
As already mentioned, these are days in which there is a lot of talk about safety at work, white deaths are a sadly fixed script in our country. Safety is a cyclical discourse, an eternal return. Progress, development, technology, modernity: none of these variables seem to have ever had a decisive impact on the constant of deaths at work.
Safety at work is a long story, one history marked by tragic events and regulations, which starts from afar.
Safety at work in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
A sort of excursus on safety could be started from IV century a. C. The protagonist is Hippocrates that he devoted himself a lot to the relationship and the similarities between work and illness. He taught his followers a rather significant maxim: in order to better diagnose the diseases of their patients, it was always necessary to know their profession.
A vision that has a lot to do with unitary conception of the organism. All organs contribute to the health of the organism, just as diseases are an alteration of the general balance (alteration also resulting from circumstances that emerged in the workplace).
Health is a harmonious and balanced conjunction of moods, while the different individual “temperaments” (sanguine, phlegmatic, biliary, atrabiliary or melancholic) and diseases arise from the dominance of a determined mood.
The Hippocratic theory that the disease involved the whole organism led to hypothesize a conception of therapy as a reorganization of an overall state of health. We are facing the famous regime of life: a gradual rehabilitation of the organism to health through a wise coordination between diet, physical exercise, hygienic and environmental conditions (and working).
Safety at work and slaves, to take an interest in it in the 1st century AD l acknowledged emperor Tiberius Claudius. He undertook to alleviate the conditions of the slaves. Sick slaves in case they were healed were considered free and if any master had killed the slave he would undergo a trial for murder.
In Middle Ages to operate were the guilds of arts and crafts who took care of the assistance of their members, ensuring them care and assistance.
Occupational safety in the modern age
From a safety perspective, we move gradually even in the course of the modern age.
In 1556 here is the posthumous publication of The metallic re of the German doctor Georg Bauer (1494-1555), better known as Agricola, the Latin version of his surname. The manual was one milestone of mineralogy, metallurgy and geology.
The text contains an immense capital of knowledge on the subject: it discusses the geology of the deposits, the techniques and strategies of excavation, the equipment and the necessary means. Inside this sort of manual focus are also reserved for the causes and circumstances of accidents and illnesses. The cause of workplace accidents, however, is attributed to the ineptitude of workers.
At the dawn of the eighteenth century, a professor of medicine at the University of Modena and Padua, Bernardo Ramazzini, published the first edition of his famous treatise Diseases of Artisans Diatriba, the first text entirely dedicated to occupational diseases.
A work born from field investigations: the doctor personally went to visit the workshops, actually investigated about forty occupations, exposing for each the health risks of the workers and the potential palliatives.
During the eighteenth century in England that process of radical metamorphosis of the economic and social organization that takes the name of Industrial Revolution. This gradual turning point (a wording with an oxymoron flavor, but punctual) led to the invention of the mechanical loom and the steam engine, transforming the work from craftsmanship into industrial.
The inventions of the mechanical loom and the steam engine they transformed the work from artisan to industrial. The very first workshops were built, recruitment to work took place without any hygienic-sanitary concern. Women, adolescents and children also suffer the consequences.
What follows, then, is a recent story that comes down to us. Just consult this link to start getting an idea.
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Historian, essayist, editor, literary agent, journalist, columnist for Past and Present (Rai). I have a degree in Historical Sciences from theFederico II University of Naples and Master in Writing and Publishing at theSuor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. Singer-songwriter, in 2021 my first singles, Campo di Stelle and Guarigione. Peregrini’s curator and essayist. I walk among the cults, rites and rituals of the South (Santelli, 2021). Editor and head of the cultural area for the magazine “Terre di Campania”. As a freelance, I am editor and curator of projects and initiatives of marketing and communication agencies.