INFORMATION

About the Conference

The 4th Hellenic Conference on Occupational Health and Safety “In a changing environment”, aims to examine the changes that can affect the health and safety of workers and arise from the new systemic risks that emerge daily from conditions such as the pandemic, implications of new technologies, as well as the effects of climate change.

The rapid pace of emergence and the scope of these new challenges, require much more than the traditional model of long-term planning and compliance. Constant vigilance, resilience, as well as immediate adaptation are the most important requirements for dealing with both new risks and existing risks that still exist in workplaces.

Keeping its focus on the human, this conference attempts to examine the factors that can affect the health and safety of workers, recognizing that the boundaries between work, physical and social environment are becoming more and more vague.

Its aim is to highlight and discuss both the different aspects of new and existing risks in the workplace as well as the new approaches or experiences to deal with them, through various perspectives and with the aim of synthesizing and disseminating knowledge about health and safety

Target Audience

The conference is addressed to all those involved in the management of health and safety issues, as well as to anyone interested in the present and future of health and safety at work.

It is also addressed to every citizen, because health and safety is a critical value not only in the workplace, but in all activities of life too. Everyone can derive useful information.

Conference Main Topics

1. Contemporary issues and challenges for OSH
   • New challenges for occupational health
   • Institutional framework for the introduction of new technologies into the production process
   • Designing workplaces for all: aging – People with disablilites
   • Effects of the environmental crisis on OSH
   • Modern HSE management systems
2. Contribution of new technology to prevention
   • Applications of new technologies in the investigation of working conditions and in the planning of measures to prevent occupational risks
   • Education, training and lifelong learning, digital age and education
   • Musculoskeletal diseases – The contribution of modern ergonomics
3. New technologies and forms of work: effects on OSH
   • Nanotechnology – Effects on health
   • Industry 4.0: robotics, IoT, safe coexistence of humans and machines
   • New forms of work
   • The work of the future and the effects on mental health
   • Systemic (health, political-social, etc.) risks with an impact on OSH
   • Artificial intelligence and OSH
4. Good practices in the new era
   • Health promotion in workplaces
   • Good practices for prevention in the workplace
   • Identification and assessment of risks in the work environment
   • Innovations in OSH in high-risk sectors
   • Strategies for implementing the vision zero for occupational accidents
   • The role of HSE institutions in the new era
   • Integrating OSH in the protection of the public
   • Business incentives to improve working conditions – Occupational risk insurance
   • OSH within the framework of ESG principles (Environmental – Social – Governance)

Organiser

Hellenic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety – ELINYAE

ELINYAE is the Social Partners’ (GSEE, SEV, GSEVEE, ESEE, SETE, SVE) Institute on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), having more than 30 years of experience in the fields of research and the provision of information, advisory support and training.

It was founded in 1992 as an independent non-profit organisation upon a joint initiative of the social partners, having the objective to provide scientific and technical support and to serve the policy for occupational safety and health in Greece. Its vision is the promotion of safety and health at work and the

strengthening of a prevention culture in association with employers, employees and the society for the benefit of all of them. Visit us: www.elinyae.gr