Milan, 30 April (LaPresse) – The high number of deaths and accidents at work are ‘a cultural issue, as well as one of profit and violation of laws. Not only of this period. And of this government. We have become accustomed to the idea that an accident can happen. But here we have civil war figures, over a thousand deaths and 500,000 accidents a year'. This is what Uil secretary general Pierpaolo Bombardieri says in an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica. ‘From 1983 to 2018 Istat and Inail count 55 thousand deaths at work against 6,081 victims of organised crime. In this country more people die from work than from the Mafia. And if the mafia were to kill more than three people a day, how would the government react?’ he adds, “it would be time for security and work to be talked about all year round and not just on the eve of May Day and never again before and after”. ‘Security is not just a question of money. It is clear that more investment is needed for training, prevention, inspections. But there is also more,' Bombardieri goes on to emphasise, ’to intervene, for example, on maximum discount tenders and cascading contracts. Instituting murder at work. And a special prosecutor's office'. And again: ‘Put the person and his dignity back at the centre. Talk about precarious and poor work. Do not leave the families of those who die alone'. Bombardieri then recalls Luana D'Orazio: ‘When a company modifies safety devices so as not to stop the machines and make more profit, it is not an accident. It is a murder and should be treated as such'. Her story, she concludes, ‘still speaks to us: girl, apprentice, no tutor. A worker is not a superhero. He just wants to go home at night'.