present two petitions: "provisions for workers and citizens exposed and former asbestos and their families, as well as delegates to the Government for the adoption of the Consolidated Law exposure to asbestos "and" the decree implementing the Fund for asbestos victims. " They propose three priority objectives: land reclamation, development of appropriate forms of health protection and the efficient functioning of the "fund for asbestos victims."
First goal: start mapping in all regions of asbestos (it is estimated that at least 32 million tons of asbestos and products containing it are still in our country) have not been completed, and often even initiated the reclamation of buildings and in public places, private and military as well as in abandoned industrial buildings.
Second objective: to implement in all regions of the medical surveillance of former exhibited by A-USL, and prepare records of mesothelioma, to increase funding for research early diagnosis and treatment of diseases related to asbestos.
Third objective: to make active and adequate the "Fund for asbestos victims' compensation for asbestos victims (family members of workers exposed and ex-exposed), it should be noted that in view of the 600,000 applications submitted Inail for approval of retirement benefits, one third were rejected and that more than half was not given an answer yet.
To read the bill and the senators Casson Pegorer, which refer to the petitions follow this link
On July 3, 2008 we delivered the signatures collected directly in the senate to Casson, at the conferenza stampa di presentazione della proposta di legge. Un ringraziamento a tutti quelli che ci hanno sostenuto firmando le petizioni
