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We have much appreciated the review by Ahmad and Osei, 1 concerning occupational health and safety measures in health care settings as strategies for protecting staff, patients, and visitors, in agreement with previous findings of the literature. 2 All the preventive measures suggested by Ahmad and Osei are arguably valuable. However, the authors did not mention a relevant preventive measure, which is important in the fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in all the workplaces, but decisive in the health care setting, namely the occupational health surveillance (OHS). In Italy as well as in European Union countries, OHS is carried out by occupational physicians (OPs) appointed by employers. OPs are central professional figures within occupational health services, as they collaborate with employers and occupational health and safety managers to develop the risk …