A “Community territorial pact for the prevention of accidents, health and safety in the workplace and legality” was signed in the Prefecture of Catanzaro. “The community pact – said the prefect of Catanzaro Castrese De Rosa – he responds to the need to bring together all public institutions and association expressions of the world of work, employers and unions, the bodies responsible for checks to bring out the centrality of the human person and the safety that can never represent a cost but if anything, an investment for companies “. The incidence of the phenomenon is written in a note, “recalls the need to raise the attention threshold since, according to the available data, in the province of Catanzaro the complaints of fatal accidents were 7 in 2022, 8 in 2023 and 7 in 2024, to which are added the sinister unknown as they took place in the folds of black work”. Among the most affected sectors, industry, services, agriculture, building and crafts appear.
With the “community pact”, the note continues, “we intend to outline a new model of prevention and combat the phenomenon of accidents at work and occupational diseases focused on increasing training levels and on the diffusion of the most recent technological acquisitions supporting economic operators. The result pursued is twofold and aims to guide workers to carry out even complex actions and share information with all the signatory parts, to shed light on all those situations, the so -called ‘accidents lacked, who have constituted and constitute a criticality but which often have not resulted and do not result in concrete incidental episodes “. The forms of incentive responds to the same logic, which are inspired by the rules provided for by INAIL for the reduction of the insurance premium, and is aimed, as a reward measure, to employers who adopt strengthening safety interventions in the workplace. A specific function is assigned to schools and universities in order to equip the young people with a critical conscience with the provision of the teaching of work safety, in order to be able to acquire knowledge not only in a notional way, but with a view to prevention and protection. Dedicated training courses are ensured to foreign workers taking into account the fact that the difficulty of linguistic understanding, as well as constitute an obstacle for integration into the social fabric, is also due to greater risk of accident in the workplace.