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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

SARS-CoV-2 and the Risk Assessment Document in Italian Work; Specific or Generic Risk Even If Aggravated?

Luigi Cirrincione, Venerando Rapisarda, Walter Mazzucco, Rosanna Provenzano, Emanuele Cannizzaro

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Alcohol Abuse and Insomnia Disorder: Focus on a Group of Night and Day Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Luigi CirrincioneDepartment of Health Promotion, Maternal and Child Health, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties "Giuseppe D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Venerando RapisardaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Occupational Medicine, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3482-1136
Walter MazzuccoDepartment of Health Promotion, Maternal and Child Health, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties "Giuseppe D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5090-1366
Rosanna ProvenzanoDepartment of Juvenile and Community Justice, 93100 Caltanissetta, Italy.
Emanuele CannizzaroDepartment of Health Promotion, Maternal and Child Health, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties "Giuseppe D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7070-209X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2ChinaHumansItalyRisk AssessmentCOVID-19decree 81/2008lawoccupational medicineprevention and protection measuresrisk assessment documentSARS-CoV-2work

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