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The occupational injuries, diseases and deaths result in high economic costs to individuals, employers, governments and society. If a State aspires to an economy aimed at productivity and efficiency, workers’ welfare, research and regulation in the field of safety at work and the relative reduction of accidents at work are fundamental. Currently, in Italy, the law of reference is the legislative decree 81/2008 ((known as the Testo Unico Sicurezza Lavoro), which revised and integrated most of the decrees from the '50s onwards, by incorporating the EU Directives coordinated in a single piece of legislation that includes specific sanctions against defaulters. The aim of this work is to verify whether preventive policies, mandatory in Italy with the legislative decree 81/2008, have highlighted a real decrease in accidents at work. The analysis has been conducted using RC(M) model association, in particular the use of a summary measure and a graphical representation has been proposed to verify if association between the variables geographical area (North, Center, South and Isles of Italy) and years (from 2008 to 2018) exists. Specifically, the results have not highlighted a significant reduction of the number of accidents from 2008 to nowadays.
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To Cite this Article: Rossi, L. (2020). Assessing the Accidents at Work by RC(M) Association Model Analysis. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. 10(11), 579-589.
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