The latest case in the news is that of a 51-year-old worker who died in Rome falling from the second floor of a scaffolding. He was working on the outside of a building in the Castro Pretorio neighborhood. According to the independent Carlo Soricelli Observatory they have died since the beginning of the year 411 workers, 203 of these in the workplace, the remainder in transit and on the roads. This figure also counts those who are not insured by Inail and therefore do not appear in the Institute’s statistics.
The data of the first two months of the year of Inail tell of almost 122 thousand reports of accidents at work, more than 47% more than the previous year, still characterized by the limitations of the pandemic. According to Inail, there were 114 deaths at work in two months, 10 more than in the same two-year period the previous year. The injuries of the women: + 65.8% from 34,990 to 58,004 complaints.
“In just two months, over 120 thousand reports of accidents were registered, 114 with fatal outcome. The worrying increases compared to the first two months of 2021 require serious reflection to stimulate greater attention to the issue of health and safety at work “said the president of Inail, Franco Bettoni.
April 28 is World Occupational Health and Safety Day. All workers, men and women. A year ago the story of Luana D’Orazio. It was May 3 and the young mother found her death at the loom she was working on. Between 2016 and 2019, the incidence of injuries to women compared to the total remained almost constant and equal to 36% on average. In 2020 it rose up to 43%, also due to the infections from Covid.
For women, the risk of injury is greater on the commute from home to work. The directors Inail Teresa Armato and Francesca Maione explain: “The data show that the” road risk “causes proportionally more injuries among women because they are more involved in reconciling professional and private life, with inevitable repercussions on the frequency of travel , on the recovery times from fatigue and, for some professionals, also due to the performance of night shifts “.
In the 2020 there was one death for every five injuries among women and one in eight among men on the home-to-work journey. Before smart working, the share was much higher: 50% for women and 25% for men.
Other stories of Vanity Fair that may interest you:
-The Stories We Are, Matteo: “No more deaths at work”
-Dead at work, Luana’s mother: “Her death was useless”
Source: Vanity Fair
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