Safety at work, Calderone: credit licence for companies coming soon
The Minister of Labour announces the signing of the decree for next week: 100 points but not for all companies. Critic Bombardieri (Uil): credit licence with 100 points a mockery of deaths at work
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"Next week" the decree on the credit licence for construction companies "I want to sign it. The credit licence will come into force on 1 October and there is plenty of time to bring in correctives. Of course corrections can also be applied after publication if there is a need. Our objective is to ensure that the credit licence becomes a tool not only for the construction sector, but that it is also extended to other sectors that must take advantage of it in order to enhance positive paths, because with the theme of credits there is that of the qualification of companies. Thus the Minister of Labour Marina Calderone on the sidelines of the assembly of the Industrial Union of Pisa dedicated to the theme of safety at work. 'It is important to valorise those who invest in safety, correct application of contracts and who do their work well,' she added, 'and who are the vast majority of Italian companies.
In licence credit 100 points, but not for all companies
"It is not true that 80 or 100 credits will be the dowry of all companies," Calderone went on to clarify in another passage; "We have proposed a reflection on the qualification of companies because additional points are given to companies with a history, and these are companies that do not have a dangerous accident trend, and the rule on the credit licence has a principle that must be reaffirmed: the inspection forces in the presence of serious irregularities can immediately suspend company activity. Where serious situations occur we will have the tools to intervene'.
Bombardieri (Uil): credit licence with 100 points mocks deaths at work
However, the final text of the decree on the credit driving licence on which the Ministry of Labour is working does not please Uil general secretary Pierpaolo Bombardieri, who was also at the assembly of the Industrial Union of Pisa. "The choice presented (yesterday, 10 July, ed.) by the government in the technical meeting, to increase the number of points to 100 for the credit driving licence is a mockery of those who have lost their lives at work, due to the violation of occupational safety regulations. Talking about a credit licence and bringing the possibility for the company to have 90 credits means that companies like those involved in the massacre at the Esselunga construction site in Florence would not and will not be stopped. So it seems clear to me the government's desire not to intervene decisively on an issue that concerns the safeguarding of life,' Bombardieri attacked on the sidelines of the event.
Cisal, perplexity about the maximum score that companies can accumulate
On the other hand, the secretary general of Cisal, Francesco Cavallaro, balks at the forthcoming introduction of the credit licence. "The final text, which was discussed at a special meeting at the Ministry of Labour, takes into account many of the observations made by Cisal, as it is based on a dynamic company evaluation system, which will also be determined by internal training activities and technological improvements implemented within the company," Cavallaro explained. However, 'we remain perplexed about the maximum score that a company will be able to accumulate: in fact, up to 100 points are envisaged; given that this is not an easily attainable score, we believe it is appropriate to evaluate, perhaps after a period of experimentation, a possible downward revision of the same. But on the whole,' he concludes, 'the measure has valid contents, which enhance the role of safety representatives and institutions linked to bilaterality'.
