Health Surveillance
Companies with at least one employee, after having carried out the risk assessment are required to activate the health surveillance by a competent doctor.
Under the Occupational Health and Safety Consolidation Act, Health Surveillance is defined as the set of medical acts,
aimed at protecting the state of health and safety of workers, in relation to the work environment, occupational risk factors and
the way in which the work activity is carried out
THE THREE MAIN PURPOSES OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
1 - Maintaining and promoting workers' health in support of work capacity;
The continuous improvement of the work environment and tasks to make it
compatible with health and safety needs;
2 - The creation of a work culture with a view to a safe and healthy environment,
fostering a positive social climate in harmony to improve the company's productivity.
3 - This all translates into integrated personnel management systems, in fostering worker participation in the life of the company in both training and
quality management policies.
OBLIGATIONS REGULATED BY ARTICLE 25 OF LEGISLATIVE DECREE 81/08
The Occupational Doctor
Companies are obliged to appoint a Competent Doctor, a professional figure
professional in charge of implementing Health Surveillance for companies.
This role can be carried out primarily by medical specialists in
Occupational Medicine, but also by specialists in Hygiene and
Preventive and/or Legal and Insurance Medicine upon completion of
of a specific postgraduate course.
Like other physicians, he is registered with the appropriate order and is included in the lists
public lists of competent physicians of the Ministry of Health.
The competent physician visits workplaces at least once a year.
A competent physician aims at the physical well-being of personnel and the healthiness of work spaces: he used to be limited to the physical-health assessment of the worker, but now he is involved from the very beginning of the company's internal prevention process alongside the employer and the responsible company figures.
to the assessment of risks to workers' health and safety by actively participating in the drafting of the DVR (risk assessment document).
The competent doctor is a reference to the different figures in the company: primarily for the employees, the employer and the company roles with focus on prevention and safety (RSPP, RLS, Travel Manager, HSE Manager, etc.).
The Competent Doctor draws up health protocols, which establish, after the risk assessment of each individual work task, the periodicity of examinations and the type of health checks to be carried out to verify the worker's fitness for work.
It is the task of the Medical Officer to certify the suitability of a person for a specific task, analyzing the risk situations, related to the presence of occupational diseases, alcohol and drug abuse, and the clinical and genetic history of the user but also of family members.
The competent physician sends a collective anonymous report annually to INAIL on the overall health status of personnel
If the company has more than 15 employees, the competent physician attends the Annual Periodic Meeting called by the Employer
AMBIMED HIVE, the proprietary software for Occupational Medicine.
We are at the forefront of the development of innovative IT processes applied to occupational health and safety. In order to be close to the needs of client companies and in step with market developments, we created HIVE, a simple and intuitive software designed to act as a bridge between the needs of Competent Doctors, the figurescompany in charge of Prevention and Safety activities and employees. With HIVE, all procedures and planning steps have been digitized by dematerializing paper documents and allowing access
quick, easy and secure access to corporate information. All in full compliance with GDPR regulations.
This allows us, in line with what is required by health and legislative regulations, based on the needs
company, to offer Occupational Medicine and Travel Medicine services throughout the country, proposing the
best Competent Doctors, guaranteeing a true tailor-made service.
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Our Travel Medicine Services
Thanks to the experience gained in the Travel Medicine sector, Ambimed has applied the issues of prevention and medical safety while traveling within the scope of the obligations set forth in Model 231, Legislative Decree 81/08 and ISO 31030 directives by structuring a proposal of services to protect the health of employees before, during and after the work trip and/or period of stay abroad. With the correct prevention and adequate preparation, transfer staff are able to safely face business travel.