OSHA Europe Digital Technologies Website Released

The brand-new website for the upcoming 2023–25 Healthy Workplaces Campaign focusing on digital technologies at work is already up and running. Let yourself be guided through a wealth of resources and information about this campaign, and discover the risks and benefits of digitalisation at work and how to ensure that workers stay safe and healthy.

Find out how to get involved and sharpen your knowledge on the topic ahead of the official launch in October 2023. But keep checking the new website regularly as many more features and tools in several languages are yet to come!

Stay tuned and visit the campaign website (in English)

Digitalisation is rapidly changing the world of work and requires new and updated occupational safety and health (OSH) solutions. The research programme of the European Agency for Safety and Health (EU-OSHA) aims to provide policy-makers, researchers and workplaces with reliable information on the potential impacts of digitalisation on OSH so they can take timely and effective action to ensure workers are safe and healthy.

The emergence of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, collaborative robotics, the internet of things, algorithms, digital labour platforms and, at the same time, an important increase in the population working remotely brings opportunities for workers and employers but also new challenges and risks for OSH. Addressing the challenges and risks and maximising the opportunities depends on how technologies are applied, managed and regulated in the context of social, political and economic trends.

Building upon its foresight study on digitalisation and OSH, EU-OSHA is running an ‘OSH overview’ research project (2020-2023) to provide in-depth information for policy, prevention and practice in relation to the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in the context of OSH.

It focuses on the following areas:

Advanced robotics and artificial intelligenceWorker management through artificial intelligenceDigital platform workSmart digital systemsRemote work

EU-OSHA’s Healthy Workplaces Campaign Safe and Healthy Work in the Digital Age, running from 2023 to 2025, raises awareness of digitalisation and OSH and provides more practical resources.