4.2. Practical implications
One of the objectives of this study was to test the level of effectiveness and reliability of the methodology designed by INAIL to assess work-related stress risk, especially since, currently, it is viewed as one of the most widely-used methods available to Italian companies. In September 2014, there were over 6000 registered companies, around 5000 compiled checklists and around 60,000 uploaded questionnaires, and these numbers are growing. One of the strengths of this method, encouraging companies to use it, is that it is based on a solid and evidence-based approach adapted to the Italian context and is freely available for all Italian companies on a web platform. Moreover, the approach fully complies with Italian OSH regulations, and was drafted with the collaboration of the body for ‘‘Technical Inter-regional Coordination for Prevention in the Workplace” both in terms of the development of the methodology and to monitor and improve the procedures. A further strength is that the method can be used by companies in a fully independent way involving their workers and internal OSH professionals and without the need to use external resources. For this reason, managers and the persons responsible for prevention and safety in the workplace take a central role throughout the methodological procedure. According to the guidelines of Permanent Consultative Commission, workers should be involved in collaborating with their employer from the early phases of the process, contributing with important information on the organizational context and identifying any corrective strategies and/or action plans needed. This means that a subset of workers and/or their health and safety representatives should be involved in the preliminary work of the Steering Group in charge of planning and managing the assessment, and to help to put together the information needed to compile the checklist (particularly the items regarding context and content). Since workers are an essential source of information regarding the working conditions they are exposed to, they can obviously contribute towards estimating the correct level of risk.
The procedure proposed by INAIL is, therefore, an integrated approach not only in terms of methodology, but also from a practical/operational point of view (Marinaccio et al., 2013). By combining the points of view of the different company actors (OSH professionals, employers and employees), the resulting overview of the problems linked to working conditions is especially useful in identifying the appropriate corrective and preventive measures to manage the sources of risk.
4.2 4.2. Practical implications
One of the objectives of this study was to test the level of effectiveness and reliability of the methodology designed by INAIL to assess work-related stress risk, especially since, currently, it is viewed as one of the most widely-used methods available to Italian companies. In September 2014, there were over 6000 registered companies, around 5000 compiled checklists and around 60,000 uploaded questionnaires, and these numbers are growing. One of the strengths of this method, encouraging companies to use it, is that it is based on a solid and evidence-based approach adapted to the Italian context and is freely available for all Italian companies on a web platform. Moreover, the approach fully complies with Italian OSH regulations, and was drafted with the collaboration of the body for ‘‘Technical Inter-regional Coordination for Prevention in the Workplace” both in terms of the development of the methodology and to monitor and improve the procedures. A further strength is that the method can be used by companies in a fully independent way involving their workers and internal OSH professionals and without the need to use external resources. For this reason, managers and the persons responsible for prevention and safety in the workplace take a central role throughout the methodological procedure. According to the guidelines of Permanent Consultative Commission, workers should be involved in collaborating with their employer from the early phases of the process, contributing with important information on the organizational context and identifying any corrective strategies and/or action plans needed. This means that a subset of workers and/or their health and safety representatives should be involved in the preliminary work of the Steering Group in charge of planning and managing the assessment, and to help to put together the information needed to compile the checklist (particularly the items regarding context and content). Since workers are an essential source of information regarding the working conditions they are exposed to, they can obviously contribute towards estimating the correct level of risk.
The procedure proposed by INAIL is, therefore, an integrated approach not only in terms of methodology, but also from a practical/operational point of view (Marinaccio et al., 2013). By combining the points of view of the different company actors (OSH professionals, employers and employees), the resulting overview of the problems linked to working conditions is especially useful in identifying the appropriate corrective and preventive measures to manage the sources of risk.
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