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    1. New types of work such as freelancing and job sharing present challenges for traditional occupational safety models which need to be adjusted. 2. Digitalization results in less employer control over work environments and boundaries, which can lead to work invading an employee's private life if not properly managed. 3. Employers may underestimate the effects of new digital technologies and processes, so they need to increase attention to working conditions and develop new approaches.

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    1. New types of work such as freelancing and job sharing present challenges for traditional occupational safety models which need to be adjusted. 2. Digitalization results in less employer control over work environments and boundaries, which can lead to work invading an employee's private life if not properly managed. 3. Employers may underestimate the effects of new digital technologies and processes, so they need to increase attention to working conditions and develop new approaches.

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    1. New types of work such as freelancing and job sharing present challenges for traditional occupational safety models which need to be adjusted. 2. Digitalization results in less employer control over work environments and boundaries, which can lead to work invading an employee's private life if not properly managed. 3. Employers may underestimate the effects of new digital technologies and processes, so they need to increase attention to working conditions and develop new approaches.

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    1. New types of work such as freelancing and job sharing present challenges for traditional occupational safety models which need to be adjusted. 2. Digitalization results in less employer control over work environments and boundaries, which can lead to work invading an employee's private life if not properly managed. 3. Employers may underestimate the effects of new digital technologies and processes, so they need to increase attention to working conditions and develop new approaches.

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    Staying Safe:

    10 Challenges of Digitalization
    for Occupational Safety

    Solution

    1.
    Challenge

    An increasing variety Occupational safety processes need to be adjusted to


    incorporate and account for the special characteristics
    of new ways of working
    that new types of work such as casual work, job sharing,
    Many new working arrangements do portfolio work and freelancing entail.
    not fit into classic occupational safety
    models.

    Disappearing restrictions on Pay more attention to workers and give

    2.
    them the freedom to make their own
    when and where work happens
    decisions and pursue ideas, make appro-
    Employers have less and less control of and influence priate resources available and strengthen
    over the working environment, ergonomics, rest breaks individual employee awareness of occu-
    and social interactions that affect their workers. This pational safety.
    newfound flexibility can ultimately lead to work invading
    the employee’s private life.

    Employers unaware
    of the issues
    Employers and executives may underesti-
    mate the influence of digital technology
    and working processes and apply old
    ways of thinking to new processes.
    3.
    Increase the amount of attention you devote to working
    conditions, adjust communication and feedback practic-
    es and develop new approaches to changing processes.

    Increased mental strain

    4.
    Clear boundaries, transparent processes,
    This occurs due to information overload, pressure to be a manageable workload, better commu-
    reachable 24/7, working processes being condensed, nication, reliable information and adjust-
    changing expectations from managers and customers, ments to how feedback is delivered.
    overwhelm, overtime, pressure to meet deadlines and
    work on a tight schedule and a lack of certainty regard-
    ing information sources and accuracy.

    Ensure safe interaction with modern technology by

    5.
    providing ongoing training and instruction so employ-
    Overloaded by ees can develop needed competencies and creating
    modern technology employee tandems (e.g. younger with older, ICT-chal-
    lenged with ICT-skilled) to foster a two-sided exchange
    Artificial intelligence and machines that
    of knowledge and experience as well as break down any
    work independently can interfere with
    anxiety employees have about working with modern
    human engagement and cause undue
    technology.
    stress to employees.
    Staying Safe:
    10 Challenges of Digitalization
    for Occupational Safety

    Solution
    Challenge

    6.
    Comprehensive risk assessments that
    Inadequate risk assessment account for all factors and how they in-
    teract to enable flexible custom solutions
    New risk-posing situations require new solutions that are and improvements.
    rarely (if at all) recorded in classic risk assessments.

    Cooperation issues
    within the company
    Efforts and strategies around digitaliza-
    tion are either opaque or not presented
    to workers in a comprehensible manner.
    7.
    Communicate with all involved parties from the incep-
    tion of an idea on to generate acceptance and allow all
    parties to have a fair say in the way work is arranged.

    8.
    Redefine responsibilities and clearly com-
    Unclear allocation of responsibilities municate them: Who is held responsible
    when autonomous machines make mis-
    Responsibilities are not clearly defined for automated takes? The manufacturer, the employer or
    or machine-assisted processes, deliverables, results and the employee?
    mistakes.

    Inadequate data protection


    The ever increasing abundance of data
    that a company manages can lead to
    gaps in data protection and security.
    how are handled, shared and saved. 9.
    Rethink processes and step up the level of attention and
    caution around how private data, information and know-

    10.
    Deepen awareness for the necessary
    Lack of transparence and clarity rethinking and reshaping of prior knowl-
    edge and processes to meet the chang-
    New working situations, work models, regulations, and
    ing circumstances of the present. Include
    ways to structure work and processes result in a loss of
    everyone.
    transparency and clarity for everyone involved.

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