An EU-OSHA foresight project  is looking at the impact on work of rapid developments in digital technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, and the potential resulting impact on occupational safety and health (OSH). This project aims to provide EU decision-makers, Member State governments, trade unions and employers with the information they need on changes in digital technologies, their impact on the nature and organisation of work, and the emerging challenges to OSH that they may bring. It is followed by an ‘OSH overview’ research project (2020 – 2023) on digitalisation and OSH.

Publications released as a result of the project

Follow-up studies looking further at important areas and challenges 

Explore all expert discussion papers on ICT/digitalisation and OSH

These activities should contribute to ensuring safe and healthy workplaces in the future, in line with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the EU.

DPI rischio biologico
Visual resources

The video presents types of personal protective equipment for biological risks. It describes why protective equipment is necessary and how to properly wear it.

Bonifica dell'Amianto
Visual resources

The video discusses the historical uses of asbestos and the measures now used to manage asbestos in construction, demolition and asbestos removal.

Edilizia sicura 6 –Il rischio chimico
Visual resources

This is a collection of short films on chemical risks in construction; it includes an example of video exposure monitoring (VEM). It also gives some basic information about how REACH addresses chemicals.

8 domande su dermatiti ed eczemi professionali
Visual resources

In fewer than two minutes, the Director of Professional and Environmental Allergology Dermatology at San Gallicano answers eight specific questions regarding the uncertainties and stereotypes surrounding skin diseases in the workplace.

La morte Bianca 4
Visual resources

The video aims to raise awareness about hazardous atmospheres in tanks for cleaning and maintenance workers. It tells a true story of unskilled workers cleaning a cistern. One of the workers enters the cistern and suffocates. Another worker wants to help him and also enters the cistern, with fatal consequences. The other workers get help from firefighters. No substance is explicitly mentioned.

Evaluation of the availability and applicability of computational approaches in the safety assessment of nanomaterials: Final report of the Nanocomput project
EU & international information

The report compiles the results of a research project aimed at assessing the availability of computational methods to predict the hazardous properties of nanomaterials. It covers various models, like structure activity relationship models, toxicokinetic and environmental fate models that are described and their feasibility for application in practice is discussed. 

Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment: occupational exposure assessment
EU & international information

This guidance document provides support on how to assess occupational exposures for use in the chemical safety report for the substance registration under REACH. This includes scoping the exposure assessment and estimating exposure levels based on modelling tools or using measured data. It also contains generic advice on how to derive risk reduction measures at the workplace.
The guidance does not address how to make a workplace risk assessments under OSH legislation.