News/Highlight tagged with "Digitalisation"
The EU Agency Cedefop has published the first insights from its Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills survey . Key findings show that about one in seven workers in European workplaces usually work with digital tools or applications that can automatically do some...
Technologies such as robots that aid in the lifting and moving of patients and AI-based systems that assist clinicians in diagnosis can cut physical and psychosocial occupational safety and health (OSH) risks. They help reduce physical fatigue and workload, as well as lowering stress. However, the technologies may also have some potential negative OSH implications such as the...
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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...
Digital transformation is changing workplaces and occupational safety and health (OSH), including in micro and small enterprises (MSEs). The Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEA) and our Greek focal point Hellenic Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs...
The Swedish Afa Försäkring (Afa Insurance), which manages collectively agreed insurance, has recently published a series of research projects on digitalisation within the regional and municipal sectors. Digitalisation is having a significant impact on the work...
The first Good Practice Exchange meeting in Portugal took place on 21 and 22 May 2024 in Ponte de Lima. Hosted by our Official Campaign Partner (OCP) ZF Friedrichshafen AG, the event included a tour across the ZF’s onsite plant to highlight important thematic...
The European Commission has launched the first-stage consultation among EU social partners to gather their views on the potential EU action towards ensuring fair telework and the right to disconnect . Telework has become widespread, especially since the Covid...
The impact of new technologies and their integration at the workplace is a trend that needs an in-depth analysis across various fields, including occupational safety and health (OSH). The increasing attention to psychosocial risks, especially after the Covid...
EU-OSHA’s foresight projects anticipate technological, environmental, societal, political, and economic changes that could lead to new occupational safety and health (OSH) challenges, with the aim of preventing future risks and ensuring safe and healthy...
Organised in collaboration with our national focal points, the Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards commend all types of organisations across Europe showcasing innovative approaches that promote worker wellbeing. The good practice examples should actively prevent occupational safety and health risks related to the introduction of digital technologies at work. Following the...
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Digital platform work encompasses a wide variety of jobs and workers facing very diverse occupational safety and health (OSH) challenges. To complement existing resources to raise awareness of this Healthy Workplaces Campaign priority area, EU-OSHA is sharing: An infographic that presents, at a glance, facts and figures, top sectors, opportunities, challenges and initiatives to...
Digital platform work offers some advantages for workers, but also presents risks to occupational safety and health (OSH). These challenges may not be sufficiently addressed due to a number of reasons, including the relative novelty of this working model, the...
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The digital transition is significantly transforming the European economic system, including the emergence of digital labour platforms as new market players. EU-OSHA´s approach to digital platform work puts the emphasis on those aspects that are more relevant...
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Digitalisation is transforming the workplace, making AI-based Worker Management (AIWM) technologies a priority area for occupational safety and health (OSH ) . Our latest paper investigates the relationship between AI and evolving management dynamics at work, using patent data to analyse AI -based management technologies, their intended functions and integration across sectors...
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EU employment and social affairs ministers have confirmed the deal reached between the EU Council and the EU Parliament on new directive to improve working conditions for more than 28 million platform workers across the EU. This EU legal act aims to help...
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William Cockburn, EU-OSHA Executive Director, recently sat down with our media partner, Health and Safety Review , for an in-depth interview. The conversation sheds light on various aspects of the EU-OSHA’s work, encompassing the three main areas of research...
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On International Women’s Day 2024 , EU-OSHA has published a new discussion paper exploring the gender dimensions of telework and the key challenges faced by women. The paper highlights the impact of the shift towards telework and hybrid models, revealing how these changes disproportionately affect women’s wellbeing and integration in the labour market. It calls for gender...
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Employing approximately 10% of the total workforce in many EU countries, the health and social care sector faces several occupational safety and health (OSH) challenges. Digitalisation and the introduction of platform work has transformed the sector by creating new OSH risks and opportunities in relation to the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of workers. Our latest paper...
The call for abstracts for the International Working on Safety (WOS) 2024 conference is now open and the deadline for submission has been extended to March 20 th , 2024. The conference will take place 22-25 September 2024 in Dresden (Germany) under the title...
Organisations from diverse sectors and operating at pan-European level have signed up to the 2023-25 Healthy Workplaces Campaign as official campaign partners . These companies and associations, from the public and private domain, play a crucial role in driving the succe ss of the campaign through awareness-raising activities, cooperation and innovation. They join EU-OSHA’s...