"The true battle for safer workplaces passes through the door of the modernisation of organisational settings and labour-management models, because obsolete constraints and irrecoverable regulations inevitably lead to abuse and extemporisation, which are some of the main causes behind so many industrial accidents". This was said to SIR by Michele Tiraboschi, lecturer in labour law at the Business Faculty of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, as he commented the three fatal accidents that occurred yesterday. Tiraboschi adds that "there is undoubtedly a problem in the quality of the rules and in the possibility to know or enforce them. The way of the Consolidated Act, which has been worked at for at least a decade, can undoubtedly be a shared response. Provided, however, this is not merely an opportunity to increase the already high number of regulations, that then make it impossible to enforce them". The real problem, according to the lecturer, is that of the "actual enforcement of the existing regulations, which can be realistically faced only if we get rid of the traditional pedantic attitude that still so heavily affects actual behaviours on the workplaces".
