Criteria to notify to the authorities the occupational lumbar trait diseases

To carry out the requirement of notification according to the Italian law D.M. 27/4/04 in relation to the item 'Manual handling of loads made continuously during working shift' it is necessary to clarify some quantitative and chronological aspects regarding the exposure and to precise the nature of the diseases to be notified. To fulfil their choices doctors at the moment can not rely on quantitative referrings based on the evidence and wide spread accepted, but they basically have operative indications partly taken from literature and stil under validation. However, to carry out the requirement of the law and to avoid choices not based on considered criteria, we propose some operative criteria deriving from the knowledge that at the moment seems more consolidated and accepted in the occupational and previdential medicine.