Designing, drafting and implementing an effective safety plan allows you to increase the well-being of those who work and to give prestige to the company's reputation towards all stakeholders, employees, partners, suppliers and customers. A safe workplace helps prevent risks and injuries, guarantees employees a serene environment, increases motivation and a sense of belonging, increases efficiency and productivity and, ultimately, reduces the possibility of the company being fined for not having paid adequate attention to the health and safety of its workers.

It is now a widespread belief that a work environment in which strict safety standards are adopted improves the level and quality of production: all this also translates into tangible savings, because systematic compliance with safety standards helps to reduce social costs for accidents and occupational diseases.

The protection of health and safety in the workplace is a subject in continuous evolution and adapts to the collective conscience, which is no longer willing to tolerate the white deaths and injuries that those who are doing their duty may incur: in the course of the time, various decree laws have adapted the legislation, making it increasingly severe, and have changed the approach of employers and workers who are now called to dialogue and collaborate to adopt caution and precautions, aimed at preventing accidents at work.

Let's see what the most important laws that have affected the safety of workers have been over the years.

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Who is the Head of the Prevention and Protection Service
The introduction of the figure of the RSPP, which took place with the law 626 of 1994 in Italy, was a significant innovation and wanted to sensitize the employer, who is given the burden of identifying a figure who helps him to adopt continuous improvement actions aimed at increasing safety in the workplace: in fact, the head of the prevention and protection service is designated by the employer for his skills and abilities which must be adequate to the nature of the specific risks in the workplace. In some cases, the role may also be covered by the employer itself or by an external consultant qualified to cover this role.
The figure of the RSPP has numerous duties and obligations including:
the identification of risk factors, risk assessment and measures for the safety and health of the workplace;
the development of safety prevention and protection procedures;
the preparation of worker information and training programmes, again on the subject of safety.

The RSPP collaborates with the employer and with the RLS (workers' safety officer), elected by the workers, to ensure continuous improvement of safety in the company. This objective can be achieved provided that all safety figures are adequately trained and updated: training and constant updating are therefore the basis for the implementation of improvement plans on safety and for a continuous increase in the level of company well-being .