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Digitalisation is transforming the workplace, making Refers to a worker management system that gathers data, often in real time, on the workspace, workers and the work they do, which is then fed into an AI- based model that makes automated or semi-automated decisions or provides information for decision-makers on worker management-related questions. technologies a priority area for occupational safety and health (OSH).

Our latest paper investigates the relationship between AI refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g. voice assistants, image analysis software, search engines, speech and face recognition systems) or AI can be embedded in hardware devices (e.g. advanced robots, autonomous cars, drones or Internet of things applications). and evolving management dynamics at work, using patent data to analyse AI -based management technologies, their intended functions and integration across sectors and the potential new risks to workers’ safety and health.

Advocating for the strategic oversight of AIWM technologies, it shows that only a marginal fraction of such technologies patented aimed at improving worker wellbeing and it highlights that OSH considerations must be integral to their design and implementation process.

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