Events

Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft, our focal point in Austria, is preparing an opening event for the Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2023-25 ‘Safe and healthy work in the digital age’.

The organisers, together with other partners working on occupational safety and health in Austria, will present the content and planned activities of this new edition of the campaign, as well as their upcoming actions in the coming years.

This introductory part will be followed by three lectures surrounding Remote work is any type of working arrangement to work from home or – more generally – away from the employer’s premises or in a fixed location. In this context the focus is on remote work enabled by digital technologies (e.g. personal computers, smartphones, laptops, software packages and the internet). , robotics and (AI) 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 Umbrella term to indicate digital systems for monitoring and enhancing workers’ safety and health including for example smart PPE (that can identify levels of gases, toxins, noise levels and high-risk temperatures), wearables (able to interact with workers, with sensors that may be embedded in hardhats or safety glasses), mobile or static systems that use cameras and sensors (e.g. drones that effectively reach and monitor dangerous areas of work sites avoiding to put humans in danger in the construction and the mining industries). in order to give the participants more insights about important topics of the campaign. Any question or doubts will be addressed in the dedicated Q&A sessions.

A round table discussion joined by six participants from different Austrian companies and institutions will showcase practical examples. They will touch upon practical issues as well as new opportunities that show up when working with digital technologies. At the end of the event, the moderator will interview four social partners on the topics of the campaign.

Moderators:

• Karin Bauer - chief for the daily print production of The Standard and editor for Career, Education & Leadership

Speakers:

• Roland Pichler – General Deputy Director of the Austrian Workers' Compensation Board
• Martina Häckel-Bucher – FoP Austria, Deputy Department Head, Ministry of Labour and Economy
• Nadja Bergmann – L&R social research
• Sascha Wischniewski – Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Germany
• Jörg Flecker – University Vienna
• Benjamin Kiefer – state hospital Graz
• Christoph Kabas – Austrian Armed Forces
• Roland Sommer – Platform Industry 4.0
• Marie Jelenko – Austrian Workers' Compensation Board
• Geronimo Grieger – Ministry of Labour and Economy
• Julia Steurer – Ministry of Labour and Economy
• Elisabeth Schmied – Austrian Economic Chambers
• Tobias Sonnweber – Industrial association
• Dorottya Kickinger – Austrian Trade Union Federation
• Julia Nedjelik-Lischka – Chamber of Labor
• Anna Ritzberger Moser – Department Head, Ministry of Labour and Economy
• Klaus Wittig – Austrian Workers' Compensation Board