“We need urgent reforms on workplace safety which has become a real national emergency: unprecedented investments in training and prevention are needed to prevent further tragedies. The accident at work in Aci Sant’Antonio (Catania), which involved a lift maintenance worker, Antonio Pistone, aged just 31, who died after being stuck between the cabin and the elevator door, opens the dramatic chapter where how UglM ask us to promote a greater culture of safety at work, through training and training courses for workers and companies, while strengthening controls in the workplace. Safety conditions must always be guaranteed.”
Harsh is the comment of the National Secretary of the Ugl Metalworkers Antonio Spera and his deputy Angelo Mazzeo as well as the Regional Secretary of UglM Sicily.
“The tragedy puts the spotlight back on the issue of safety at work. According to the latest Eurostat report, Italy is second only to France for deaths at work: a position that appears inconceivable in light of the technologies and tools we have at our disposal in 2024. The promotion by the institutions of a real work culture that indicates the protection of health and life as the first fundamental right to be recognized for workers. In this perspective, we need to focus on education and training which play a crucial role, starting from secondary schools” – Spera and Mazzeo conclude.
