AIMC Topic: Occupational Health

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Regulatory and Ethical Considerations on Artificial Intelligence for Occupational Medicine.

La Medicina del lavoro
Generative artificial intelligence and Large Language Models are reshaping labor dynamics and occupational health practices. As AI continues to evolve, there's a critical need to customize ethical considerations for its specific impacts on occupation...

Responsible Development of Emerging Technologies: Extensions and Lessons From Nanotechnology for Worker Protection.

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
OBJECTIVES: This paper identifies approaches to the responsible development of emerging technologies to secure worker safety and health.

Robotization of Industrial Processes: Motivational Differences between Companies with and without Existing Robotic Processes.

IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSOur survey of 100 manufacturing facilities revealed statistically significant differences among company types in their perceptions of cost savings, productivity gains, and safety improvements as benefits of robotic implementa...

Augmented reality-enabled human-robot collaboration to balance construction waste sorting efficiency and occupational safety and health.

Journal of environmental management
Construction waste sorting (CWS) is highly recommended as a key step for construction waste management. However, current CWS involves humans' manual hand-picking, which poses significant threats to their occupational safety and health (OSH). Robotic ...

Emerging technology in agriculture: Opportunities and considerations for occupational safety and health researchers.

Journal of safety research
INTRODUCTION: A variety of factors are driving the development of robotics and automation in the agriculture industry including the nature of work, workforce shortages, and a variety of economic, climatic, technologic, political, and social factors. ...

Improving Workers' Musculoskeletal Health During Human-Robot Collaboration Through Reinforcement Learning.

Human factors
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to improve workers' postures and thus reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders in human-robot collaboration by developing a novel model-free reinforcement learning method.

Trends in Robotics Research in Occupational Safety and Health: A Scientometric Analysis and Review.

International journal of environmental research and public health
Robots have been deployed in workplaces to assist, work alongside, or collaborate with human workers on various tasks, which introduces new occupational safety and health hazards and requires research efforts to address these issues. This study inves...

Excellence in Total Worker Health® and an Interview With Dr Laura Linnan.

American journal of health promotion : AJHP
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines as "policies, programs and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance wo...

Algorithms and the future of work.

American journal of industrial medicine
An algorithm refers to a series of stepwise instructions used by a machine to perform a mathematical operation. In 1955, the term artificial intelligence (AI) was coined to indicate that a machine could be programmed to duplicate human intelligence. ...

Occupational health and safety risk assessment using a fuzzy multi-criteria approach in a hospital in Chennai, India.

International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Hospitals provide direct and indirect employment benefits to medical professionals. Accidents in hospitals often lead to disastrous consequences such as fatalities, property damage and economic losses. It is, therefore, imperative to have an occupat...