Corporate Service of Penitentiary Medicine, Abruzzo Local Health Unit No.1, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
Occupational Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Mar 14;20(6):5105. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20065105.
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic still represents a public health emergency that affects workplaces and forces employers to develop technical, organizational and procedural measures safeguarding workers' health, particularly 'fragile' ones. This research aimed to assess employers' adherence to the emergency measures planned by the Italian government to hinder COVID-19 during Autumn 2022.
A cross-sectional study was conducted in Autumn 2022, with an 18-item questionnaire derived from the Italian State's governmental indications, sent by email to 51 companies of Marsica and Peligna Valley, L'Aquila, Southern Italy.
A total of 20 recruited companies (65% were micro-enterprises, belonging to the food and financial sector) responded to the questionnaire within a mean time of 18 days (±11.64), which was lower for medium- and large-sized companies as well as for banking sector ones ( < 0.05). As regards intervention strategies, sanitization (92.7% of positive answers) and specific training (83.3%) showed almost full compliance in contrast to working organization (47.5%) and social distancing (61.7%). The companies that reported managing fragility (50%) belong almost exclusively to the banking sector, with predominantly office-based tasks.
The study provided insight into critical issues relating to compliance with national legislative directives and the crucial role of occupational physicians as global advisors for all workplaces.
SARS-CoV-2 大流行仍然是一个公共卫生紧急事件，影响着工作场所，并迫使雇主制定技术、组织和程序措施来保障工人的健康，尤其是“脆弱”的工人。本研究旨在评估雇主在 2022 年秋季遵守意大利政府为防范 COVID-19 而计划的紧急措施的情况。
在 2022 年秋季进行了一项横断面研究，采用了一份 18 项的问卷，该问卷源自意大利政府的指示，通过电子邮件发送给意大利南部拉奎拉的马尔西卡和佩尔利尼亚山谷的 51 家公司。
共有 20 家招聘公司（65%为微型企业，属于食品和金融部门）在平均 18 天（±11.64）内回复了问卷，中大型公司和银行部门的回复时间更短（<0.05）。在干预策略方面，消毒（92.7%的回答为肯定）和专项培训（83.3%）的合规率几乎为 100%，而工作组织（47.5%）和社交距离（61.7%）的合规率较低。报告管理脆弱性（50%）的公司几乎都来自银行部门，其工作主要以办公室为基础。
该研究深入了解了与遵守国家立法指令相关的关键问题，以及职业医生作为所有工作场所的全面顾问的重要作用。
