2,100 more inspectors will arrive and a new summit for the National Labor Inspectorate for safety, an issue on which it is necessary to “make a common front”, said the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, at the table with the unions at which he also attended by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza. For Orlando, there is a need to strengthen prevention and controls, increasing investments and staff, with “a survey” on this front also at the level of the ASL and the Regions and imagining a multi-year prevention plan. The recruitment of about 2,100 units to the Labor Inspectorate represents a first “response of great impact,” explained Orlando. «Safety and health in the workplace must be a priority – added Speranza -. The spirit of union and collaboration put in place between the government, workers and companies in recent months for the anti Covid-19 protocols must animate a new season that contrasts injuries and deaths at work ”.
The reports of accidents at work with a fatal outcome submitted to Inail by March were 185, 19 more than the 166 reports registered in the first quarter of 2020 (+ 11.4%), the effect of the increases observed in all months of 2021 compared to those of 2020. Among the trade unions, for Maurizio Landini, general secretary of the CGIL, it is necessary to “immediately reach the definition of a” Security Agreement “between the government and the social partners, to make targeted recruitments in public services to ensure more prevention, inspections and controls, conditioning the resources of the NRP for companies to comply with contracts and all the rules on health and safety in the workplace, up to a license with points. That of accidents and deaths at work – he said – is a national emergency ». To ask for a change is the general secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra who asks “to apply the Consolidated Law in all places, strengthen controls, enhance the license with points to stop this silent massacre that takes away more than 1200 people every year, 200 deaths in just three months 2021, an unacceptable figure for a civilized country. Together we can give a strong signal that safety in the workplace is not a cost but an investment in quality, stability and job protection, for a better organization of work and to raise the reputation of companies, in all sectors. productive: in construction sites, in factories, in agriculture, in the tertiary sector, in services, in logistics ». The leader of UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, speaks of an interlocutory meeting, underlining the need for «a control room coordinated by the Prime Minister. We continue to demand more controls and inspections, involving more the Rls and, at this stage, exceptionally, also the police ”. It is then necessary to address the issue “of the tenders to the maximum discount and it must be established that whoever violates the safety rules, with consequent serious accidents, cannot participate in public tenders – adds Bombardieri -. Finally, investments in prevention and also in training are needed to bring the issue of safety in the workplace to schools and universities ».
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In response to the demands of the trade unions, Minister Orlando explained that “we must think about how we, with the National Health Service, are able to program a plan that can also have a multi-year scope and that starts from the assumption that investment in prevention it is basically a gain in health. It seems to me that this corresponds to a general plan that lies within the Recovery, which goes in the direction of prevention ».