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The attention to developing the subjective dimensions and environmental policies to promote health in the contexts of work is established with the development of "model of organizational health." This model explains the concepts of stress and health in the workplace as phenomena not reducible to the individual dimension, going to intercept the styles of living that characterize organizational practices, significant in the process of health promotion (Avallone and Paplomatas, 2005). The aim of this work consists in the recognition of risk factors and protective measures which characterize the context of the bakery, investigating the size of individual, relational, organizational and socio-economic conditions. The methodology included a phase of analysis of the context, a collection of the principal objective data and a reinterpretation of them inside a narrative and autobiographcial prospective, offered by the subjects interested in the evaluation.

This contribution, which started in the Laboratory "Stress and Work" of Ospedali Riuniti in Bergamo (USC Occupational Medicine and Clinical Psychology USSD), offers a shared location for the risk assessment of work-related stress in the context of small businesses, enhancing, in line with Article 25 of Legislative Decree 81/08, the central role of the doctor. The theoretical frame is about the concept of organizational health (Avallone and Paplomatas, 2005) and the elements of the subjectivity and local cultures of work (Shein, 2000). In this context, the doctor, often the only professionist in prevention in the company, who is able to know the health conditions of workers, is described as a key figure very important in the evaluation of work-related stress.

The number of building injuries and professional health disease make evidence of safety problems in this field. The study of human factors may help us in observing this problem in a better way (more global). The aims of this study is to investigate construction workers risk perception and representation. Which are the risk? Which risk is perceived as more dangerous? What is Risk?. These are some question this study try to give an answer, asking about worker perception and representation of risk. Qualitative analysis shows which are the meanings workers use when they talk about risk, underlining the influence of personal, group, organizational and cultural variables.