President Sergio Mattarella on
Thursday said in a message for the presentation of a report by
the parliamentary inquiry commission on labour conditions in
Italy following the deadly railway incident of Brandizzo on
August 30 last year that workplace deaths and accidents are an
"intolerable offence for the collective conscience".
"Security on the job is the necessary condition to make
effective the fundamental and inalienable right to health that
cannot find limits in the lack or inadequacy of appropriate
measures to make jobs and the workplace healthy and devoid of
dangers.
"The commitment for this end of institutions and social
representatives will never be sufficient", concluded the
president.
Five track maintenance workers lost their lives in the rail
accident at Brandizzo near Turin.
The two survivors of the accident - the foreman of the team of
workers employed by a contractor and the Italian rail company
RFI employee responsible for the worksite - are among 15 put
under investigation by prosecutors in Ivrea in connection with
the incident.
One of the key issues probed is why work was allowed to begin
before there was confirmation that traffic on the line had been
halted, as well as the implementation and respect of security
procedures for workers.
Sources say investigators believe work started even though the
RFI employee was denied the all-clear for it to begin in three
phone calls with network officials.
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