Naples prefect Michele di Bari has tied the prevention of workplace accidents to more inspection visits in construction sites and agricultural businesses, calling for incisive controls across the metropolitan area.
According to Il Mattino, the prefect said an intensive control effort is underway in the metropolitan city of Naples, involving local health authorities (ASL) and law enforcement. The remarks were reported on 7 October 2026 in a premium-access article; only the accessible text of the page could be verified for this article.
What the prefect asked for
The core of the message is straightforward: prevention requires presence on the ground. Il Mattino reports that di Bari pointed to inspection visits in construction sites — "visite ispettive nei cantieri" — and in agricultural companies, alongside what was described as incisive control activity, or "controlli incisivi".
No institutional statement confirming the details of the provincial committee meeting cited in that reporting was available in the sources reviewed. Readers should therefore treat the prefect's remarks as reported by the newspaper, rather than as a confirmed official communique.
Coordinated site checks are already an established tool
The call fits an existing practice in Naples. The Prefecture of Naples reported in June 2024 that it had ordered coordinated inspection accesses in numerous construction sites in the city and the wider metropolitan area, including works financed by Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
Those checks were carried out by an interforces group bringing together law enforcement, the Labour Inspectorate and the Public Works authority (Provveditorato alle Opere Pubbliche). According to the Prefecture, the inspections covered the companies operating on site, personnel, vehicles and administrative documentation.
For readers, that list is useful context: a construction-site access is not only a safety walk-through. It can combine labour, administrative and anti-irregularity checks on who is working, for which company, with which equipment, and under what paperwork.
The wider inspection picture
National labour-inspection data help explain why authorities emphasise construction, but they do not give a Naples-only count.
The National Labour Inspectorate's annual report for 2024 records 16,890 health-and-safety inspections and 51,385 total accesses for the Southern Interregional Labour Directorate (DIL Sud), with 15,873 accesses in the construction sector. That DIL Sud figure is a territorial aggregate and cannot be read as a total for Naples or for Campania alone.
Similarly, no updated official figures to 2026 for inspection accesses or injuries limited to the metropolitan city of Naples were available in the sources reviewed.
How to read injury figures with care
Workplace-injury statistics also need careful interpretation. INAIL, Italy's workers' compensation authority, notes that its monthly releases describe the current administrative picture, while its half-yearly releases are designed for analysis of trends over the last five years, once events are more consolidated.
In practice, a monthly figure is a snapshot for short-term monitoring, not a stable trend. Longer consolidated series are better suited to judging whether safety is improving or deteriorating.
What remains unclear
Several points remain open. The verified sources do not provide a Naples-specific breakdown of recent inspections or injuries, nor a directly accessible institutional record of the meeting described in the 7 October newspaper report. Until the Prefecture publishes further details, the scope, timetable and targets of any new round of visits remain unconfirmed.
What is confirmed is the direction signalled by both the prefect's reported remarks and the Prefecture's earlier action: coordinated, multi-agency checks on construction sites — covering firms, workers, equipment and documents — with attention also to agricultural businesses, supported by health authorities and law enforcement.