Automation of tasks in the digital age: exploring the opportunities and challenges

Employing advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to automate tasks is becoming increasingly common in EU workplaces. It allows workers to delegate mundane and risky activities for enhanced safety and skill development, but it poses challenges like overreliance, loss of autonomy and the need for proper training. Automation of tasks is the new priority area of the ‘Safe and healthy work in the digital age’ campaign of the EU-OSHA.

2024-06-12T20:10:21+02:00

EU-OSHA: Digital platform work in the health and social care sector: implications for occupational safety and health

The health and social care sector has traditionally been ahead of the curve in datafication and digitalisation trends. Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the continued technological and societal changes affect not only the workers in the sector but also the affordability and quality of care provision. A paper of EU-OSHA (Link) offers evidence on the occupational safety and health (OSH) risks and opportunities of digital platform work in the sector.

2024-04-10T15:56:14+02:00

EU-OSHA: Worker management through AI – From technology development to the impacts on workers and their safety and health

How can artificial intelligence support the safety inspection of machines? What does the increasing digitalization of human-machine interaction mean for occupational safety? How robust is Industry 4.0 against cyberattacks? These and other questions will be addressed by international experts in a digital lecture series developed by the IFA in cooperation with the Section Machine and System Safety of the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

2024-04-10T17:01:18+02:00

A+A 2023 under the sign of sustainability and digitalization

Exhibiting companies can now register for A+A 2023. The world's leading trade fair and congress event for personal protection, occupational safety and health at work will take place in Düsseldorf from 24 to 27 October 2023. Under the motto "People count", numerous exhibitors will present innovative solutions and concepts for safe and healthy working at A+A 2023. This time, the thematic umbrella of the leading international trade fair is formed by the big megatrends of digitalization and sustainability.

2022-06-30T15:12:49+02:00

Digital platform work: EU Member States’ regulations, policies and initiatives

A EU-OSHA policy brief highlights findings and takeaways from a study of OSH-related regulations, policies, strategies, initiatives, actions and programmes for digital platform work. It builds on four case studies, three of which present legislative initiatives in Spain, Italy and France. The fourth explains actions that labour and social security inspectorates can take to manage OSH risks.

2022-03-12T11:00:34+01:00
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