This morning the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Andrea Orlando, to acquire information on the latest workplace accidents that have occurred in recent days and on the initiatives taken by the ministry to combat accidents and safety in the workplace. This was announced by the press office of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies.
*** The map of deaths at work in 2021
During the phone call, it is reported, Minister Orlando informed the Head of State that the issue of safety and health at work is subjected to constant and incisive attention on the basis of the awareness that continuous action is required in the field of prevention. by the governing bodies.
The Ministry has activated a control room with the widest involvement of all the actors, institutional and social. With a letter sent to Minister Speranza and President Fedriga, the verification of the level of the workforce was requested for the definition of the standards of personnel requirements in the territorial services of the ASL inspection personnel, the body to which the law delegates the main activity of public supervision on the matter.
The timely activation of the Advisory Commission pursuant to art. 6 of TU 81/2008 and chaired by the Minister. After the suspension determined by the pandemic situation, the procedure for the recruitment of 2,099 new resources to the National Labor Inspectorate was started and accelerated, of which 1053 inspectors, to which 184 administrative staff already provided for by the “Recovery DL” must be added, for a total of 2283 hires, thus filling the gap in the staff present for years and a magistrate with specific and high competence in the matter was appointed as Head of the INL.
Similar measures to increase the workforce were requested, as already mentioned, also for the inspection services of the ASL in order to reintegrate the lost personnel. Through the method of confrontation and social dialogue, shared protocols have been adopted to prevent the risk of COVID-19 in the company, adopting this approach for similar interventions to also deal with the risk of accidents, for the table to combat the exploitation of work in agriculture, for the promotion of inspection campaigns and for policies to emerge from undeclared work. The protocol on the riders is also inserted in the same groove, which has significant repercussions in terms of safety.
A Task Force in the logistics and freight transport sector has been set up in order to promptly identify and combat illegal behavior in the logistics and transport sector. With the use of about 400 Carabinieri from the Labor Protection Command and the Provincial Commands, a control operation was carried out in ten large logistics and transport sites throughout Italy. In the construction sector, a ministerial decree has been adopted which defines a system for verifying the adequacy of the incidence of manpower employed in the construction of both public and private building works. The Ministry is also working to strengthen the suspensive and disqualifying measures, which are in an advanced stage of development, through the assignment of a new operational tool to the supervisory bodies, for a direct, urgent and decisive intervention in the matter of protection of job security, the fight against illegal work and the exploitation of labor, through a control on companies that are in particular conditions of illegality. And finally, also on the specific issue of occupational diseases and in particular those related to asbestos, the ministry has activated a discussion for an action to reform the legislation on environmental controls.