The Italian Model for Regulating Health and Safety at Work

The Italian Model for Regulating Health and Safety at Work 

Health and safety has been included in coU ve bargmning at national and enterprise level frn many years. At the same time, the character of the Italian system for regulating health and safety at work before the transposition of the Framework Dir tive 89/391 was profoundly difeent to that of othra EU member shites in the way it conceptualised workers occupational health, the reponsibility for it and the structure and processes set up to protect and promote it The notion that workers have a rij t to collective control over their own healfo was arguably fimdamental to the Italian approach to regulating health and safety and more explicit than in other EU countries. It ve a 

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