Ricerc@Sapienza

Introduction: One among the key aspects of a good psychosocial risks management is using approaches and validated tools tailored to specific critical aspects as size of organization, productive sector and workforce specificities. This can help in enabling practical impact and in developing effective action plans and fitting interventions. The Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority (INAIL) has started a process of contextualization of its methodology for the assessment and management of risks associated to work-related stress (Inail, 2013) in a at-risk sector as the healthcare one.

Risk assessment represents an essential part of any successful intervention in health and safety at work. The most prominent European methodologies propose multi-method approaches for identifying the risks associated with work-related stress. Nevertheless, the most widely used method is the self-administered questionnaire. By adapting the UK Management Standards approach, the Italian National Workers Compensation Authority (INAIL) developed a checklist for the assessment of objective and verifiable indicators of work-related stress.