Job security in ports "is a dogma of of which we are all aware. But this awareness must become the dominant feeling of our daily life". It has underlined the vice president of Assologistica, Agostino Gallozzi speaking at the seminar on the theme "The port to come: challenges and necessities for safety at work", held yesterday in Rome at the Sala Regina of the Chamber of Deputies Deputies, which was organized by the Bilateral Body National Ports (EBN), the joint body made up of all the Parties to the National Collective Agreement for Workers of ports - Assoporti, Assiterminal, Assologistica and Uniport - for the employers' part, and the Filt-Cgil trade unions, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti representing workers.

"Primary education," Gallozzi explained, "goes alongside behavioral safety, the so-called BBS, Behavior-Based Safety: An approach where the focus shifts from only observance of the rules, which always remains a duty, to the full awareness of behaviour, actively involving the workers in the construction of a true culture of safety". In his speech, the vice president of Assologistica highlighted the need to strengthen the shift from a model based solely on compliance with the requirements of a more participatory path, in which each worker is part active in the prevention and management of risks. A theme central to a sector, such as the port sector, which - he noted - is Characterized by complex operations, dynamic environments and shared responsibilities.

During the seminar, the National School of Transport and Logistica presented the update of the progress report of the accident phenomenon in port operations, carried out for the EBN. From the analysis of the data of this work it emerged, on the positive side, a decrease in the number of accidents in the last (2023-2024) compared to what was It has been noted in previous editions of the report that the same EBN had realized years ago and the growing involvement and attention of the various protagonists of operations to the theme of occupational safety. As has already emerged in the previous investigations, the need to a constant and motivated attention to safety in the sector, the importance of training and the need, inter alia, to establish a unified national monitoring system for accidents in the port area.

The work continued with a round table between representatives of the various constituent parts of the Bilateral Body, during which the vice-president of the National Union Port Companies (Uniport), Alberto Casali, underlined how the work of companies in promoting the culture of safety among workers and in investing in training can lead to results of absolute importance. In this regard, he illustrated the flattering results achieved in the MCT port terminal in Gioia Tauro, of which he is a director, and as regards the reduction in the number of accidents in total as well as in the rate accidents compared to hours worked. Casali has emphasised the importance of prevention for the achievement of those results, even more significant and explanatory than the effort put in place by the company given the complexity of a terminal - such as MCT - which is the largest in Italy for containers handled, with significantly growing volumes and a number of vehicles operating at the same time that make It is essential to face all phases of the activity with conscious behaviors to reach ever greater levels of security.

At the end of the event, the president of EBN Porti, Angelo Manicone, announced the presentation, within a short time, of further research, recently started, on the strenuous work in the port activities.