Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Department of Juridical and Economic Studies, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Oct 16;21(10):1368. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21101368.
Technological innovation and Industry 5.0 are gaining increasing attention among researchers as they offer companies a significant competitive advantage. On the other hand, introducing these technologies also brings new risks for workers. The current literature reveals a lack of studies that effectively integrate occupational safety and health (OSH) within this emerging technological context and analyse the impacts of their use. This study aims to explore how companies interact with macro-level interventions that promote technological innovation and to understand their impact on different dimensions of company performance, including aspects related to OSH. Based on the existing literature, a research framework is presented that identifies the stakeholders involved, the inputs facilitating their interaction, and the cascading effects and changes. A mixed-methods approach was adopted by employing an in-depth survey with 89 companies responding and composed of both open-ended questions, to capture rich, qualitative insights, and multiple-choice questions, to gather quantifiable data. Two change levels have been identified: general changes and specific changes related to OSH. The analysis also delved into the main drivers and barriers that lead companies to engage with technological improvements and the multiple changes these interventions generate across company dimensions.
技术创新和工业 5.0 在研究人员中越来越受到关注，因为它们为企业提供了显著的竞争优势。另一方面，引入这些技术也给工人带来了新的风险。现有文献表明，缺乏有效将职业安全与健康（OSH）纳入这一新兴技术背景并分析其使用影响的研究。本研究旨在探讨公司如何与促进技术创新的宏观层面干预措施相互作用，并了解其对公司绩效的不同维度的影响，包括与 OSH 相关的方面。基于现有文献，提出了一个研究框架，确定了涉及的利益相关者、促进他们相互作用的投入，以及级联效应和变化。采用混合方法，对 89 家公司进行了深入调查，其中包括开放式问题，以获取丰富的定性见解，以及多项选择题，以收集可量化的数据。确定了两个变革层面：与 OSH 相关的一般变革和具体变革。分析还深入研究了导致公司参与技术改进的主要驱动因素和障碍，以及这些干预措施在公司各个层面产生的多种变化。
