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Health and Safety

Safety is the first pillar of a good life for emergency professionals, rescuers and Fire Fighters. We are operating in a complex and hard environment. Risk prevention and improving working conditions are fundamental for better health and life.

 

Workaholism: how to deal with it

The term workaholism (work addiction) was introduced by Oates in 1971 by combining the word 'work' and the word 'alcoholism' to describe work addiction. Schaufeli, Taris, and Bakker (2008) defined workaholism as "the tendency to work…

Cataract - what is it?

Cataract is a phenomenon of opacification – partial or complete – of the crystalline, i.e. that part of the entire and transparent eye, located between the iris and the vitreous body, which allows the convergence and focus on the retina of…