Coordination of European Research on Industrial Safety towards Smart and Sustainable Growth
HUMAN4DIG 5.0
Designing safety and health compliant Cyber Physical systems for digitalized surveillanceand assistance processes in hazardous workplaces
Digital transformation and Industry 5.0 concepts place increased emphasis on human-centricity, resilience and sustainability, yet many digital solutions insufficiently address workers’ needs, capabilities and well-being. Rapid technological change can introduce new safety, cognitive and psychosocial risks if human factors are not adequately considered. HUMAN4DIG 5.0 addresses this challenge by developing guidelines to support more human-centric Cyber Physical systems (CPS) technologies applied for surveillance and assistance systems at hazardous work place.
The project aims to systematize and assess the actual benefits and potential impacts of CPS based systems for digital surveillance and assistance.
The main research questions addressed are:
1) What are the real benefits and challenges, from OSH perspective, of the most widespread digital surveillance/assistance systems adopted at workplace?
2) How to plan the design of these new digitalised workplaces and processes where OSH specialist can ensure the safety by design while collaborating with the Innovation Team?
3) What are the main requirements that must characterize these technologies for developing more transparent, safe and human centric systems?
HUMAN4DIG 5.0 aims at 1) Assessing and systematizing the experience of workers about digital surveillance and assistance applications, 2) Proposing multi-criteria and multi-level guidelines and a reference framework for developing CPS-based surveillance and assistance systems for supporting OSH practitioners to plan worker-centred, digitalised, safe processes and healthy workplaces.
The project workplan is organised into four coordinated work packages. - WP1 – Assessing challenges and critical elements affecting current applications of digital surveillance and assistance systems at workplaces. – WP2 – Developing multi-level guidelines for supporting design and management of CPS-based tools for digital worker surveillance and assistance. – WP3 – Test and validation of proposed guidelines. – WP4 – Dissemination and communication of project results.
Digital technologies applied for supporting OSH management: a state of the art for automatic surveillance and digital assistant systems (Submitted to ESREL conference 2026)
Report: state of the art of adoption of CPS technologies for digital surveillance and assistance at workplace
Javier Larrañeta
PESI
Spain
Fabiana Tornese
University of Salento
Italy
Valerio Elia
University of Salento
Italy
Serena Andriulo
University of Salento
Italy
Roberto Setola
Campus Bio-medico University of Rome
Italy
Marta Menci
Campus Bio-medico University of Rome
Italy
Simone Guarini
Campus Bio-medico University of Rome
Italy
Marco Papi
Campus Bio-medico University of Rome
Italy
Flavia Smarrazzo
Campus Bio-medico University of Rome
Italy
Rafael Ispizua Anduiza
IPARTIC Consulting
Spain
Aitor Delgado López
IPARTIC Consulting
Spain
Laura García Hernández
IPARTIC Consulting
Spain