The impact of new technologies on occupational safety and health from the point of view of their academic interest

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In the midst of the Industry 4.0 revolution, there is an increasing number of new technological advances that promise to optimize productivity, and with the new Industry 5.0 proposal centered on the human being, an improvement in people's well-being is expected. Derived from this situation, it is pertinent to ask the question of whether these new technologies help or could help in the improvement of worker Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). Firstly, a search was carried out in the SCOPUS and WEB of SCIENCE bibliographic databases, using a set of key words to detect the relationship between these technologies and OSH. A quantitative and qualitative analysis was carried out on the selected articles, looking for whether these technologies favors OSH and in which area they have or will have a greater application. According to this study, it is possible to appreciate that the current interest in these technologies is more focused on risk assessment, and that the two most relevant technologies for OSH are Wearables and Artificial Intelligence.

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Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Materials ((SPM,volume 50)) Included in the following conference series: X Workshop in R&D+i & International Workshop on STEM of EPS

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