Occupational medicine

The duties of the competent doctor are:
- instruct and / or update the medical risk record
- carry out pre-hiring visits and periodic visits
- carry out inspections on an annual basis or at intervals to be established according to the risk
- sign and verify, with any observations, the Risk Assessment Document relating to the health part
- draw up and update the health protocol
- inform workers about the meaning of the checks they are subjected to
- release the suitability for the performance of the job
- communicate in writing through an annual health report, on the occasion of periodic meetings, to the employer, to the head of the risk protection prevention service, to the workers' safety representatives, the collective anonymous results of the health surveillance carried out and to provide indications on the significance of these results for the purposes of implementing the measures for the protection of the health and psycho-physical integrity of workers;
- establish a health and risk file for each worker subjected to health surveillance. In companies or production units with more than 15 workers, the competent doctor agrees the place of custody with the employer;
- send to ISPESL, exclusively electronically, the health and risk records in the cases provided for by this legislative decree, upon termination of the employment relationship, in compliance with the provisions of Legislative Decree 30 June 2003, no. 196. The worker concerned can request a copy of the aforementioned files from ISPESL through the occupational doctor or even his own general practitioner;
- communicate, through self-certification, the possession of the qualifications and requirements referred to in Article 38 to the Ministry of Health within six months from the date of entry into force of this decree.
- transmit the aggregated health and risk data of workers (ANNEX 3B) subjected to health surveillance within the first quarter of each year following the reference year, exclusively electronically.