ENEA has developed new tools based on artificial intelligence to measure and improve safety and efficiency in the workplace. The first tests were conducted with positive results in two different work contexts, a multinational pharmaceutical company and an Italian metalworking company. The research has been published in the international Journal of Industrial Information Integration and is part of the international project "Human-Centred Safety Crowd-Sensitive Indicators”, in which ENEA (coordinating), Sapienza University of Rome, Middlesex University of London, the company Human Factors Everywhere and Inail, which funded the Italian share, participated. "The methodology and software tools we have developed are designed to ensure efficiency and security in modern enterprises where production processes involve the interaction between people, physical instrumentation and technological components, including robots, drones, software and sensors. In technical jargon, we refer to cyber-socio-technical systems," explains Antonio De Nicola, researcher at ENEA's Critical Infrastructure Analysis and Protection Laboratory and co-author of the study with colleague Maria Luisa Villani, Francesco Costantino, Andrea Falegnami and Riccardo Patriarca of Sapienza University of Rome, Mark Sujan of Human Factors Everywhere and John Watt of Middlesex University.
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