Workplace Safety and Professional Liability

Workplace safety is a constitutionally protected right (arts. 2, 32 and 41 of the Constitution). For its protection, the legal system requires the employer to adopt a series of preventive and protective measures of a technical, organizational and procedural nature, adequate to ensure workers a safe and healthy working environment.

The firm’s activity has always focused on the criminally relevant aspects of the matter, and all professionals have deepened their knowledge regarding the various offences arising from violations of regulations on workplace accidents and occupational diseases: manslaughter and negligent bodily injury committed in violation of workplace health and safety regulations; intentional removal or omission of precautions against workplace accidents; negligent omission of precautions or safeguards against disasters or workplace accidents.

The firm also provides judicial assistance in cases of criminal liability that may involve various professional figures: from lawyers to accountants, from notaries to auditors, from members of boards of statutory auditors to members of supervisory bodies, from technical consultants to judicial administrators, from receivers to condominium administrators.

Particular attention is devoted to the issue of criminal liability that may affect doctors and other healthcare professionals in the exercise of their profession, which in recent decades has taken on at times concerning features. The firm has handled numerous cases of professional negligence and charges of manslaughter and personal injury pursuant to art. 590-sexies of the Criminal Code, addressing the most relevant issues of medical malpractice.