“In Liguria in the first two months of 2024, an average of 48 complaints were registered of accidents at work every 24 hours. An alarming figure which obviously does not take into account the ‘invisible’ accidents, those linked to irregular work.”- This is the data that emerges according to INAIL, regarding the number of accident reports in the workplace in the first months of 2024. Today is in fact the World Day for Safety at Work.
“These are impressive numbers, which require reflection on the need, which can no longer be postponed, to address what has become a true social emergency”, he comments in a note Luca Maestripieri, regional secretary of the CISL.
According to the Inail report, accident reports in Liguria in February 2024 were 1,387 while in February 2023 there were 1,391. As regards the two-month period January-February 2023, there were 2,838 complaints while in the same period of this year there was a slight increase to 2,880: this means 48 complaints per day in the first two months of 2024. Complaints in construction are growing, which they went from 137 to 174, and in the health and social care sector, from 154 to 172. Fatal accidents increased, in the period January-February 2023 there were 3 while in the period January-February 2024 there were 4, of which 2 in construction and the others in transport and warehousing. Injury reports increased in the younger range: among 20-24 year olds from 183 to 201, in the 25-29 range from 230 to 272.
“No one can look the other way anymore: the plague of accidents at work affects everyone, because it affects both workers and the social and healthcare system. And it does not only derive, as one might imagine, from the introduction of dangerous work tools, poor compliance with regulations or insufficient controls and inspections. If, in fact, the lack of a safety culture is the first indisputable risk factor, it should be remembered that accidents are increasingly a consequence of excessive workloads, the acceleration of working times and a culture of performance and productivity which increases the risk margins and which, when it does not cause an injury, in any case, causes a dangerous increase in the stress condition. And again the phenomenon of precarious employment which lurks in false VAT numbers, in internships, in traineeships, in false so-called spurious cooperatives, in the illegal use of para-subordinate contracts or, worse, fictitious VAT numbers, in the absolute absence of training of new hires: these are the conditions that increase the safety risks in the workplace which need to be addressed”, concludes Maestripieri
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