Company safety plan and signing of the DVR

The Legislative Decree 81/08 and subsequent amendments, together with the State Regions Agreements, defines the obligations that companies must necessarily comply with in terms of health and safety in the workplace. These include the obligation for an employer with at least eleven employees to draw up a Company Safety Plan. The document must contain:

• firstly, a report for the assessment of health and safety risks in the workplace, which is called the Risk Assessment Document (DVR)
• the definition of prevention / protection measures and the identification of personal protective equipment (PPE), or any type of safety equipment or clothing that the worker is required to wear to protect himself from the aforementioned risks;
• planning of the measures deemed appropriate to ensure, over time, further optimization of safety levels.

The purposes of the Company Safety Plan are multiple:

• document the risk assessment activities, which the employer must compulsorily carry out;
• "Publicize" internally the initiatives aimed at preventing the risk of illness or injury;
• give a concrete reference to those who come into contact with the issues of risk prevention in the company or with activities related to safety in the workplace..

The Document, which must be constantly updated or revised in the event of significant changes in the company production process, must be kept in the company, available to the Representative for the Safety of Workers (RLS) and the supervisory bodies in charge in the event of a check.

What is the DVR?

The DVR (Risk Assessment Document) is a prospectus within which the possible risks present in a given workplace are identified. The purpose of the document is to prevent dangerous situations for workers, through a careful analysis of the potential risks identified. Following these assessments, a precise prevention and protection plan is then drawn up and implemented which aims to eliminate or at least reduce the likelihood of events harmful to the health and safety of workers

The DVR must contain the following information:

• all company data (personal data);
• the organization chart of the Prevention and Protection Service, or of the professional figures involved in the preparation of the DVR itself;
• the description of the work cycle and the identification of the various tasks;
• an assessment of the risks present in each work phase and for each of the previously stated tasks, the identification of employees exposed to specific risks, an estimate of the degree of exposure and the severity of any damage;
• a planning of prevention and protection measures, the timing of implementation and the indication of the PPE that workers must use
• a planning of optimization interventions to be implemented over time in order to increase the safety level

Regardless of sector, the DVR is mandatory for all companies that have at least one employee or collaborator. It must be drawn up within 90 days for a new activity or immediately if a worker joins a company that has already started.

The manager of the DVR is always the employer, who cannot delegate this activity but can decide to rely on the advice of a technician specialized in occupational safety.

Depending on the specific cases provided for by law, the Head of the Prevention and Protection Service, the Company Doctor and the Workers' Representative may also be involved in the drafting of the Document.

The DVR must be updated whenever the company undergoes significant changes in the production process and / or organization, as well as when new machinery and / or new tasks are introduced within it. The original copy of the Document, signed by all the figures who took part in the drafting, must be kept in the company and made available in the event of inspections by the ASL, INPS, INAIL or Fire Brigade, which may ask to view it .

Failure or incomplete drafting of the Risk Assessment Document can result in heavy penalties for the employer: fines from €3,000 to €15,000, suspension of the existing activity and, in the worst case, a prison sentence of up to 8 months.

The Role of Idini Estintori

As part of the risk assessment, identification of prevention systems and subsequent drafting of the Safety Plan and the DVR for your small or large business,

We at Idini Estintori, thanks to our decades of experience, can offer you impeccable consultancy services to help you achieve and maintain a high degree of legislative compliance over time.

After an initial inspection at your premises, we will help you define a training plan for your employees, detect any non-fulfillment, make a risk assessment (low-medium-high) and together we will define a safety plan designed specifically to limit human risks as much as possible, thus avoiding severe penalties that would cause significant economic damage to your business.

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