310 firms inspected Wed, 66% irregularities - Calderone

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 4 - Labour Minister Marina Calderone said amid an alarm over workplace deaths in Italy that on Wednesday alone ministerial inspectors had inspected some 310 agricultural companies across Italy and found irregularities regarding safety standards and practices in fully 66% of them.
    "Yesterday there was the biggest operation of surveillance ever carried out in a single day," she told a ceremony for the victims of workplace accidents in the Lower House.
    "Some 310 farming companies were inspected and irregularities were found in 66% of them, not only regarding workplace safety but also as regards the management of relations with those employed at them," she said.
    She went on to say that "a lot can be done to stem the tide of fatal workplace accidents by acting in silence to change the culture." (ANSA).