Italy update: The worker’s personal knowledge can never replace the training activity with regard to the risks associated with the tasks

Civil Cassation, criminal section, 19 October 2022, n. 39489

If the entrepreneur does not comply with the fundamental obligation of training employees regarding the risks associated with the tasks, also in correlation with the place where they must be carried out, he will be called to answer for the accident occurred to the worker whenever the failure to train can be said to be causally linked to the occurrence of the event.

Such training is necessary and compulsory even if the worker has long professional experience.

For the Court of Cassation, in fact, the worker’s personal wealth of knowledge can never replace the training activity.

By Quorum, Italy, a Transatlantic Law International Affiliated Firm. 

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