Over 700 deaths at work. Anmil, 'introduce the crime of murder'

Over 700 deaths at work from January to today, almost 405 reports of accidents and just under 75,000 of occupational diseases. These are the dramatic numbers that Anmil, the association of disabled and disabled workers, lists on the basis of recent INAIL data, highlighting that - despite efforts and often "facade" justice - the phenomenon continues to have all the characteristics of an emergency in Italy.

On the occasion of the 76th National Day for the Victims of Accidents at Work, it is also the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella who recalls how the protection of health and safety in the workplace finds "its foundation in the principles of the Constitution. From them - explains the Head of State - derives a concrete duty: to intervene on risks before they translate into accidents, through effective prevention, adequate training and protection measures capable of optimizing, for this purpose, the technological and organizational changes of work".

A line shared by the Minister of Labor, Marina Calderone. "Prevention represents the first and most important form of protection of people's lives and dignity. Safety at work is built by intervening before an accident occurs, before a risk turns into a tragedy". By choosing Longarone, in memory of the Vajont disaster, as the national venue for the celebrations taking place throughout the Italian territory, Anmil therefore reiterates its request: to establish the autonomous crime of 'murder at work' in the Italian legal system.

"It is not a question of justicialism - states President Amedeo Bozzer, recalling the bill currently being examined by the Chamber Justice Commission - but rather of inaugurating a new era of social justice which deserves solid foundations aimed at regaining the lost trust in the State's ability to protect the safety of workers". To restore dignity to the health and safety of workers, the association is also thinking of the establishment of a National Labor Prosecutor's Office, capable of centralizing and standardizing investigations on the matter by overcoming territorial fragmentation and "led by a team of magistrates who are experts in the vast thematic scope that workplace safety encompasses. A Prosecutor's Office that finally teaches, real and not just superficial", explains Bozzer.