The glove and the bare hand

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The glove and the bare hand

Who is protected, who is not

By Serena Labonia

30mm f/5.0 1/60s ISO 800
Camera: Canon EOS 4000D — EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III
Date: 2025-10-26
Fact
In 2024 Italy recorded 583,385 workplace injuries, 1,090 of them fatal: three people leave home to go to work and never come back, every day.
Law
Italy's Workplace Safety Code (Legislative Decree 81/2008) requires employers to provide 'adequate and sufficient' personal protective equipment: a principle that remains unenforced across large swaths of irregular work and sub-contracting chains.