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Prevention, countering undeclared labor, protecting victims' families, and the new challenges presented by artificial intelligence. These were the main subjects of the General Assembly on Workplace Safety, which brought together institutions, social partners, and specialists in the Chamber of Deputies to discuss the measures required to increase worker protection. This conversation emphasized the importance of moving beyond a narrow approach to regulatory compliance, concentrating on more effective controls, cross-administration coordination, and the use of new preventative technology. "The issue of workplace health and safety must unite, not divide", stated Labor Minister Marina Elvira Calderone, underlining the need for safety as a continuous commitment rather than a conference topic. Among the methods mentioned by the minister were the strengthening of the credit-based driving license, with the prospect of expanding its use to other sectors, and the use of technology to improve working conditions while retaining human oversight of decision-making. Calderone also declared the ministry's commitment to developing resources to enable free legal aid for the families of workplace accident victims, ensuring that the cost of an often protracted legal process does not become an additional barrier to those seeking justice. Chiara Gribaudo, chairperson of Italy's Commission of Inquiry into Working Conditions, underlined the importance of listening to the victims' families. "Behind the numbers are people, and those left behind", she stated, highlighting the families' pain and right to justice. The Commission has proposed a bill providing free legal aid to the families of workplace accident victims, which has been tabled in the Chamber of Deputies, and Gribaudo has appealed for its rapid ratification. "It cannot be a paragraph of a budget law", she said, pushing for the measure to be given special consideration.
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