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A seminar on occupational health and safety will take place on 21 February 2025 in Marco de Canaveses, Portugal. The programme features interesting discussions and expert presentations covering diverse topics.    

The seminar programme:

13:30h – Secretariat opening 

14:00h – Opening session - Marco de Canaveses City Council

14:15h – Presentation of works - Paula Sousa, director of the Occupational Health and Safety Promotion Services – ACT

14:30h – AI refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g. voice assistants, image analysis software, search engines, speech and face recognition systems) or AI can be embedded in hardware devices (e.g. advanced robots, autonomous cars, drones or Internet of things applications). -based worker management - Emília Telo and Isabel Nunes, from the National Focal Point of the European Agency EU-OSHA – ACT

15:00h – Smart occupational safety: The role of Wearables are electronic devices with sensors and computational capacity (e.g. smart watches, data glasses, or other devices with embedded sensors or tags), which can be placed on different body parts to gather data to be fed into other digital systems for processing purposes. They can be used to analyse physiological and psychological data such as feelings, sleep, movements, heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure, via applications either installed on the device itself or on external devices, such as smartphones connected to the cloud. and AI refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g. voice assistants, image analysis software, search engines, speech and face recognition systems) or AI can be embedded in hardware devices (e.g. advanced robots, autonomous cars, drones or Internet of things applications). in the future of work - Susana Rodrigues and Adriana Arrais, the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science – INESC TEC

15:30h – Winwork project: Creating healthy work environments to promote quality of life and well-being in the workplace - Joana Santos, the Polytechnic of Porto – Higher School of Health

15:50h – Occupational Diseases: From prevention to declared disease - João Matias and Albino Andrade, Medimarco

16:20h – Mapping of Accidents in the Vale do Sousa - Isabel Vieira, director of the Penafiel Local Unit – ACT

16:40h – Debate and closing session - Marco de Canaveses Business Association, in conjunction with Medimarco

17:00h Networking 

Registration link:

https://www.medimarco.pt/seminario-do-marco