The requirement for risk assessment of work-related stress becomes operational. From 1 January 2011, the public and private employers should examine the sources of risk from stress and put them into the business document. The Standing Advisory Committee for Health in the workplace, within the Ministry of Welfare, adopted at its meeting on 17 November, the guidelines will be used for obligations under Articles 6, paragraph 8, letter c-m and 28 paragraph 1-a, of the Consolidated Security (Legislative Decree No. 81/08). The Ministry of Labor has informed a circular letter to its office.
The indications given by the committee, more time to allow businesses to adjust. However, employers will have to "program" by the end of all phases of the assessment of risks from stress. This schedule, with hearings to be carried out in accordance with the methodology suggested in the guidelines (without the mandatory presence of a psychologist), to be presented to any inspectors. The latter should judge that the obligation on the basis the program drawn up by employers, for example in relation to the number of employees. It is clear that, in principle, a company with a hundred workers will be given more time to one that employs 20.
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