Analysis of accidents in the construction industry in Italy

Abstract

The work aims to analyze the evolution of injury data in the construction sector following the implementation of European legislation in the 90's in the Italian corpus. The previous Italian legislation did not provide for the safety planning and design, but was intended to prevent the risk of accidents with the merely application of the law prescriptions. With the implementation of European Directives and the introduction of the Coordination & Safety plan, the Italian legislation adopted a new approach for safety management. The present work analyzes the official data collected by INAIL (National Institute for Insurance Against Accidents at Work) measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the new rules applied on different workplaces with particular reference to the construction industry. The work correlates the data with the trend of GDP produced by the industrial sectors and not referring to the absolute number of accidents. The work shows also the amount of economic and social costs of accident