They show how health and safety problems are very far from
being solved. It is well known that an effective approach to health
and safety at work needs a suitable risk assessment phase, the
adoption of prevention and protection actions and the implementation
of a severe ‘‘safety audit” phase. However, less attention has
been paid to these phases in the practice, using non-appropriate
tools and methodologies which are either too complex to manage
or too simple and subjective, thus not suitable to recognize hazards
and reduce the corresponding risks