Services
Trade Unions
The Trade-Union department of AMMA can help member Companies with any problems directly or indirectly related to personnel management. Relations with companies are either based on telephone contacts or meetings held in the Association’s office or during visits to the company.With the aim of offering a useful backup for personnel management and representing members’ interests, the department also focuses on other activities. These include sitting on boards and committees, developing relations with social security and welfare offices, the Regional and Provincial Labour Offices, local health authorities, etc. In particular, AMMA attends the delegations for the National Labour contract, takes part in all negotiations, helps to draw up contractual documents and, through its own representatives in the Expert Group, it also monitors the management and application nationwide.
Safety and environment
This department’s task is to advise member companies how to comply with specific regulations, to identify intervention priorities, define procedures and draw up adequate preventive measures.In fulfilling its task, the department offers a specific advisory service which can also carry out plant inspections, organise meetings and provide information over the phone.
The department also takes part in the work carried out by the Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano (CEI), Ente Italiano di Unificazione (UNI), Comité Européene de Normalisation (CEN), Associazione Italiana degli Igienisti Industriali (AIDII), Comitato Centrale Tecnico Scientifico di Prevenzione Incendi (CCTS).
Technology
The department is responsible for technical information and the spread of innovation in technologically-advanced sectors.It operates through the periodical publication “Quaderni Tecnologici”, and also organises seminars, conferences and one-day courses.
Training
This department has carried out training activities for over 20 years and is now one of the largest intercompany centres in Piedmont.The professional staff working for the department include over 300 lecturers who are some of the most highly qualified in their own sectors.
Over 200 courses are programmed each year, divided into 5 major thematic areas: Management, Personnel, Administration and Finance, Production and Organisation, Sales and Marketing.
The department is represented on Institutional Committees in the training sector and interacts locally with other organisations, as well as with the main universities, in particular Turin Polytechnic and the Research centres.
Historical archive
AMMA’s activities are rounded off by its significant presence in the cultural sector, through the Historical Archive which offers a means of studying and promoting the history of technical progress and mechanical enterprise, with special reference to the area of Turin.The Archive collects and conserves original materials, both of a documentary nature – books, papers, manuscripts, drawings – and more strictly technical artefacts – machines, equipment, instruments – covering a period stretching from the late medieval times to the First World War.
The half-yearly journal entitled “Le culture della tecnica” ensures the continuity of its cultural activities.