DGS (the Directorate-General for Health) granted the application for authorisation submitted by SIPRP for the provision of Occupational Medicine services to companies that exercise activities involving contact with medium and high voltage electric current.
This alteration elevated the number of high risk activities or work authorised by DGS to six, in accordance with article 79 of Law number 102/2009, of 10 September, namely:
- Work in construction sites, excavation, earthworks, tunnels, with risks of falls from a height or burial, demolitions and interventions in railways and roads without traffic interruption;
- Activities that involve the use or storage of significant quantities of hazardous chemical products capable of causing serious accidents;
- Activities that involve contacts with medium and high voltage electric current;
- Activities that imply exposure to agents which are carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction;
- Activities that imply exposure to biological agents of group 3 and 4;
- Work that involves risk of exposure to silica.
