OSH system at national level - Italy

Occupational safety and health legislative framework

The European Directives led to a new concept of safety and health at work (OSH), less impositive and more preventive. Such a change was expressed both at cultural and legislative terms in the national transpositions. The relevant national legislation is: the Legislative Decree no. 626 of September 19th 1994 [1] and the current Legislative Decree no. 81 of April 9th 2008 [1], updated with the provisions introduced by Legislative Decree no. 106 of August 3rd 2009 [3]; which coordinates and restructures in a single regulation text all relevant legal provisions.The Legislative Decree no. 626/94, which was in force until…