Occupational Safety and Health 5.0—A Model for Multilevel Strategic Deployment Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030

María Jesús Ávila-Gutiérrez, Susana Suarez-Fernandez de Miranda and Francisco Aguayo-González
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María Jesús Ávila-Gutiérrez: Design Engineering Department, Polytechnic School, University of Seville, 41011 Seville, Spain
Susana Suarez-Fernandez de Miranda: Design Engineering Department, Polytechnic School, University of Seville, 41011 Seville, Spain
Francisco Aguayo-González: Design Engineering Department, Polytechnic School, University of Seville, 41011 Seville, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: The concept of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is evolving towards Industry 5.0 (I5.0), where the human factor is the central axis for the formation of smart cyber-physical socio-technical systems that are integrated into their physical and cultural host environment. This situation generates a new work ecosystem with a radical change in the methods, processes and development scenarios and, therefore, in the occupational risks to which safety science must respond. In this paper, a historical review of the evolution of work as a complex socio-technical system formalised through Vygostky’s theory of Activity and the contributions of safety science is carried out, for its projection in the analysis of the future of complex systems as an opportunity for safety research linked to the current labour context in transformation. Next, the Horizon 2020 strategies for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) at the European level are analysed to extract the lessons learned and extrapolate them towards the proposed model, and subsequently the conceptual frameworks that are transforming work and Occupational Risk Prevention (ORP) in the transition to Industry 4.0 are identified and reviewed. Finally, a model is formulated that formalises the deployment of public policies and multi-level and multi-scale OSH 5.0 strategies within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) for Horizon 2030.

Keywords: digitalisation of OSH; OSH 4.0; OSH 4.0 policy and strategy; OSH 5.0 model; socio-technical systems safety science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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