“In Liguria, in the first two months of 2024, an average of 48 workplace accident reports were recorded every 24 hours. An alarming figure which obviously does not take into account ‘invisible’ injuries, those linked to irregular 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”, says Luca Maestripieri, general secretary of CISL Liguria.
“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
