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Every year, World Day for safety and health at work is celebrated on April 28. On this occasion, EUROGIP highlights four key resources related to the theme of this 2025 edition: the impacts of artificial intelligence and digitization in occupational health and safety.
International:
- In an ambitious report released on April 23, 2025 entitled “Revolutionizing health and safety: the role of AI and digitization at work“, the International Labour Organization (ILO) analyzes how digital technologies are transforming occupational health and safety on a global scale.
Numerous changes are underway: task automation, advanced robotics, intelligent surveillance systems, virtual reality, algorithmic work management… This report details in concrete terms the opportunities offered by these technologies, while exposing their potential risks. It also offers a global analysis of global, regional and national policies governing OHS in digital workplaces.
Europe:
- The “Safe and Healthy Work in the Digital Age 2023-2025” campaign of the European Union’s Information Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) offers a platform for the exchange of good practice to raise awareness of the effects of new technologies on working conditions.
From international news and events to publications and infographics, the EU-OSHA campaign makes available a variety of informative materials on five priority areas: digital platform working, advanced robotics and artificial intelligence, remote working, intelligent digital systems and managing workers with artificial intelligence.
National:
- In a focus entitled “Platform work: understanding the new European Directive“, EUROGIP takes stock of algorithmic management and the first-ever European directive setting standards for transparency and ethical management of algorithms in the world of work.
In around twenty pages, this focus explains in concrete terms how the November 11, 2024 directive is a historic legal breakthrough on the use of algorithms in the workplace. Although limited to digital platforms, this directive notably imposes transparency on monitoring systems, limits on the collection of personal data, a right to information on automated decisions, and the reinforcement of human supervision. All in all, a significant step forward in the world of digital work platforms.
- The article “Artificial intelligence in occupational health and safety: challenges and prospects to 2035” by the Institut national de recherche et de sécurité pour la prévention des accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles (INRS) describes how AI could benefit OHS.
In a forward-looking exercise, INRS identifies in a dozen pages the challenges and prospects for the evolution of AI use in the field of OHS. Based on the premise that artificial intelligence could transform occupational risk prevention by 2035, four scenarios are imagined: digital giants impose their solutions and vision (1), states guarantee a framework for the integration of AI (2), democracy develops (3) and AI declines (4).
