Safety without calm? Young workers` early job experiences and psychosocial risk in a comparative reading of Italy`s Legislative Decree 81/2008 and Japan

Background Italy's Legislative Decree 81/2008 includes work-related stress and organisational factors in its definition of prevention. For young workers in unstable jobs, the gap between legal principles and daily experience may be wide. Objective To compare how young workers in Italy and Japan perceive physical and mental safety, stress, and economic risk, and to ask what the patterns suggest about where prevention struggles. Methods Mixed-method dataset of 206 young workers (92 Italy, 114 Japa