Occupational Safety and Health and Environmental Safety criticalities depending on geo-economic areas: a focus on mining and quarrying activities

International and National databases confirm a global inequality in terms of financial, economic and social development of Countries, despite the World Globalization process of International integration by the interchange of worldviews, knowledges and cultures. Such mismatches are even more evident between the low-income countries and the “rich” ones, where techniques, technologies, geopolitical economies, and norma-tive frameworks are strengthen. Unfortunately, these aspects somehow affect the working conditions in criti-cal NACE sectors, where the occurrence of work related injuries is still impressive. The mismanagement of OS&H aspects is related to a lacking management of emissions toward the surround-ing territory, contributing to determine important environmental impacts; this is more evident in high-risk ac-tivities such as Mining and Quarrying - M&Q. The present work aims to provide some useful tools to manage OS&H and Environmental issues in M&Q, a sector where the involved techniques and technologies significantly depend on the economic and cultural con-text.