Smart occupational health and safety for a digital era and its place in smart and sustainable cities.
Author: Sánchez-Segura, María-Isabel; Dugarte-Peña, German-Lenin; de Amescua, Antonio; Medina-Domínguez, Fuensanta; López-Almansa, Eugenio; Barrio Reyes, Eva
Abstract: As innovative technologies emerge, there is a need to evolve the environments in which
these technologies are used. The trend has shifted from considering technology as a support service
towards making it the means for transforming all complex systems. Smart cities focus their
development on the use of technology to transform every aspect of society and embrace the complexity
of these transformations towards something leading to the well-being and safety of people inhabiting
these cities. Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is an essential aspect to be considered in the design
of a smart city and its digital ecosystems, however, it remains unconsidered in most smart city’s
frameworks, despite the need for a specific space for smart OHS. This paper summarizes a 9-month
process of generation of a value proposition for evolving the sector of OHS based on a value-map in
whose creation several stakeholders have participated. They focused on identifying the products, the
methods, the organizational structures and the technologies required to develop an updated, dynamic
and robust prevention model focused on workers in smart and complex contexts, and to improve the
organizations’ capability to guarantee safety even in the most changing, digital and disruptive settings.
To assess the relevance and validity of this value-map, a study was carried out to match the set of its
elements and its specific and conceptual products discovered, considering also the definition of the
past needs and future trends of the sector that a set of renowned stakeholders and key opinion leaders (with mastery in OHS from several companies and industries) have recently defined for the decade
of 2020. A prospective analysis of this match is presented, revealing that there is still an existing gap
to be covered in the context of smart cities design: the explicit guarantee of safety for workers.
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