Fight against gambling addiction: there is an obligation to train operators and staff employed in establishments authorized to practice gambling or gaming machines. He communicates it Confimpresa Massa-Carrara, training agency accredited and authorized by the Tuscany Region, which will hold the courses in its headquarters in Viale E. Chiesa 22 in Massa. Last days, therefore, to respect the deadlines set by the regional law for mandatory training on gambling addiction for owners, managers and operators who work in betting centers and more generally in spaces for gaming with cash winnings. At the Massa Carrara and Versilia offices of Confimpresa Toscana, the first to activate these courses in Tuscany, courses recognized and accredited by the Tuscany Region are being organized to activate the training course.

«These mandatory training courses – we read in a note – have the aim of preventing and combating pathological gambling. The courses that we organize for companies in our province and in Versilia are aimed, as specified by the Regional Law, at managers and staff of betting centers, gaming rooms, bars, tobacconists and other businesses with slot machines or prize games that have the 'obligation, by next December 31st, to participate in training and refresher courses and to also involve the relevant staff".

The trainers are doctors and psychotherapists while the recipients are: the manager and staff of betting centers and gaming spaces with exclusive cash winnings, as well as the manager and assistant (or assistant or employee) of the premises dedicated to gaming on a non-exclusive basis. exclusive (tobacconists, public establishments, etc.). Failure to participate in training courses according to the methods established by the Tuscany Region entails the application of an administrative sanction ranging from 1.000 euros to 5.000 euros. The first eight-hour course will take place in person at the Confimpresa headquarters in Massa Carrara, in Viale E. Chiesa 22 in Massa, on Tuesday 5 and Monday 11 December, and will be held by the Training Agency accredited and authorized by the Region Tuscany. For all the details and to register for the compulsory training courses, contact Confimpresa Massa on 0585/811530 or 0585/792056 or by writing to [email protected].

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