Digitalization and occupational safety in the Salerno area

A project born from the collaboration between IRPPS and INAIL

The powerful technological innovation of the Digital Revolution, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is taking place through the use of technologies ranging across a wide array of digital systems that are already changing industrial apparatuses and work organization worldwide.

The onset of the pandemic has helped make this shift more evident, a change in which our country lags behind its main European and international competitors. Suffice it to say that before the health and subsequent economic crisis linked to Covid-19, only 1 in 5 companies had adopted a strategy to digitalize processes or create support for the remote workforce.

The explosion of agile work or smart working during the pandemic (with the number of workers involved rising from 500,000 to 8 million) brings back the question of how our country and its production system intend to approach this new organizational work model in the future, also to meet the environmental sustainability of our operations.

Therefore, the main objective of the project—for which companies in the Salerno Area are asked to complete the questionnaire accessible via the link sent by PEC (certified email)—is to develop and disseminate Best Practices to support the transition to agile work from the emergency phase to a “structural” one, as well as to ensure effective occupational prevention and safety.

In this difficult path of change, the purpose of disseminating Best Practices will be to foster trust and support the productivity of companies and workers. Secondly, from a prevention perspective, the survey will seek to identify potential opportunities to offer life coaching services, psychological support, and well-being programs to assist employees who may experience high levels of stress generated by various causes (overworking, disengagement from company goals, etc.).

The results will lead directly to a more in-depth knowledge of working conditions and their subsequent improvement for the benefit of both the company and the workers themselves.

The Best Practices developed will be widely disseminated through a brochure distributed via seminars to all companies in the Campania region, in addition to those in Salerno involved in this project.

Note: those wishing to participate in the survey can do so by sending a request to:

digitalmente.cnr@irpps.cnr.it