Health plan, from a site perspective in Catania

Interview with Filippo Prati,Human Resources Director, Catania, Italy

In Catania, we have frequent medical visits required by local law 626/94, focusing on people working with chemical products. These include eye and hearing checks, blood tests, spirometric exams, etc.

The specific Health Plan launched by our CEO will allow us to address a wider range of health issues and increase prevention.

After a first assessment step to evaluate the gap between local reality and ST’s objective, we proposed a personalized Health Plan for our site.

We are planning on doing complete check-ups, blood analyses, mammography, chest x-rays, audiometric tests, electrocardiogram, blood pressure checks and cancer screening not only for the population considered more at risk, but for a wider audience.

The whole program has been prepared in 2006: the budget has been accepted at corporate level and all local medical experts and doctors have been contacted to organize the planning of the program that will be launched during the second quarter of 2007.

We will work within our local Sustainable Excellence Steering Committee to define the communication campaign to launch the program and involve all employees on site.