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Occupational Exposure to Physical Agents: The New Italian Database for Risk Assessment and Control

2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10803548.2014.11077065

2376-9130

Pietro Nataletti, A. Bogi, Massimo Borra, Domenico Gioia, Rosaria Falsaperla, Enrico Marchetti, Andrea Militello, Omar Nicolini, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Floriana Sacco, Nicola Stacchini, Iole Pinto,

Effects of Vibration on Health

This article presents the new Italian database of physical agents, which is available at http://www.portalea-gentifisici.it. It supports in risk assessment employers who have to comply with Italy's Legislative Decree 81/2008 (transposing into law European Union Directives 2003/10/EC, 2002/44/EC, 2004/40/EC and 2006/25/EC). The database currently contains measurements and declared European Community (EC) values from over 2540 machines; in particular, the database hosts data on mechanical vibration from over 1430 hand-held power tools (e.g., pneumatic and electric hammers, chainsaws, grinders, drills, sanders and saws) and from over 1020 whole-body machines (e.g., buses, fork lifts and wheel tractors). The database is continuously updated as soon as new experimental and declared data are acquired.