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The article focuses on the safety and health related issues of the workers employed in the Italian and global construction industry. It discusses several practices that should be employed in the industry including the implementation of research in technology and ergonomics, improvement of building site organization and the rehabilitation and reintegration to work. It also reports that the occupational physicians should work for the risk assessment and protecting the health of workers.

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The article focuses on the evolution of occupational health activities which has become a part of health and safety preventative strategy in the workplace and its surrounding environment. Health surveillance which include risk assessment has assumed a preventative role in the evaluation of exposures of individuals in the work environment to chemical and biological substances. Moreover, instruments are available provided by legislation in carrying out the activities.

The article considers experiences on the use of biological monitoring (BM) at the international level. It discusses the contribution that the approach can provide in developing diagnostic and preventive tools in occupational and environmental health. It provides an overview of BM which was used to assess exposure, effects and susceptibility to occupational agents and molecular biology.