The words of the undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, during the meeting for the signing of the implementation agreement of the national protocol between Inail, Mit and Assoporti last April.
“We have experienced truly dramatic days with many accidents that have caused the death of many workers. The document signed today falls within the specifics of how to resolve some problems in some workplaces and I believe that with the intervention of Inail, Assoporti and above all of ‘Civitavecchia Port Authority can give different results and arrive at zero injuries.” These are the words of Claudio Durigon, undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, during the meeting for the signing of the implementation agreement of the national protocol between Inail, Mit and Assoporti last April.
The agreement will launch a series of initiatives to implement health and safety during port operations taking place in the port of Civitavecchia and to be implemented with the involvement of trade union organizations and business associations in the port sector and in collaboration with other competent institutions.
To reduce the incidence of accidents at work “We will intervene through a lot of training – explains the undersecretary – objectively a port system that is constantly present and capable of informing its employees can certainly have a margin risk, certainly less high than what we have today we have and this protocol goes in that direction. Within the implementation of this protocol there are also the social partners, who in some way know where the risks can intersect and where solutions can be found to aspire to Zero accidents”.
In fact, from Inail data, it emerges that the main risks in port situations concern the movement of goods and warehouse activities, followed by the operation of heavy vehicles and the movement of machinery and operational vehicles on ships.
Another fundamental theme that emerged from the protocol is that of performance “that is, the risks that determine the diversity of the world’s ports: there is competition with Chinese ports, for example, which certainly have a lower risk assessment compared to what we must put in the field, but what matters for us today is to determine that you cannot die for work”, he concludes.
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