The law 493/1999 has established that they are subject to the obligation to register for the injuries in the home, managed by INAIL, People who freely and without subordination constraint carry out an activity aimed at taking care of the members of the family and the environment in which they live habitual and exclusively.
People who carry out domestic work activities represent a category of workers particularly exposed to risk conditions, typical of the environment in which they operate, As confirmed by the number of accidents recorded in the domestic area.
Citing the authors of the book "Look better. Because habit makes us blind of such Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein “Habitation is one of the main reasons why risk sensitivity to home in general is so low. Many accidents in the domestic area happen, because we are too sure of us. The fact that the 50% serious accidents occur in the home is a direct consequence of the habitation”
The repetitiveness of daily actions for the care of houses and people can lower the attention threshold and consequently increase exposure to risk.
What is a domestic accident?
Domestic injury is an accident that presents certain characteristics:
• involves temporary or definitive compromise of the health conditions of a person, due to various types of injuries;
• It occurs independently of the human will;
• It occurs in a house, understood as the set of the actual apartment and any external extensions, like balconies, the garden, the garage or cellar.
Alex Gaetani
Read more:
Who Inail website page dedicated to household insurance
Here the dedicated booklet compulsory insurance against domestic accidents