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The fourth edition of the Vale do Ave Occupational Safety and Health Congress in Guimarães, Portugal, organised by our focal point Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho and Alto Ave Local Health Unit (ULSAAVE) explores the topic of safe and healthy work in digitalised environments.

Bringing together experts from occupational medicine, healthcare, engineering, research, public administration and public institutions, the event examines how technologies like (AI) 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). , Use of systems or technical procedures to allow a device or system to execute (partially or fully) a function that was previously, or conceivably could be, carried out (partially or fully) by a human. and Umbrella term to indicate digital systems for monitoring and enhancing workers’ safety and health including for example smart PPE (that can identify levels of gases, toxins, noise levels and high-risk temperatures), wearables (able to interact with workers, with sensors that may be embedded in hardhats or safety glasses), mobile or static systems that use cameras and sensors (e.g. drones that effectively reach and monitor dangerous areas of work sites avoiding to put humans in danger in the construction and the mining industries). are changing the way workplaces address worker safety and wellbeing.

The congress promotes the exchange of good practices, the dissemination of European and national initiatives and the presentation of research projects and case studies.  

Moderator:

• Emília Telo, Coordinator of the National Focal Point of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Authority for Working Conditions  

Speakers:

• Fernanda Campos, Inspector General, Authority for Working Conditions (ACT)  
• Emília Telo, National Focal Point Coordinator, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), ACT
• Paula Carneiro, Director, Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho  
• Paulo Novais, Director, Department of Informatics, University of Minho  
• Pedro Cunha, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alto Ave Local Health Unit (ULSAAVE), School of Medicine, University of Minho  
• Maria José Almeida, President of the Occupational Medicine Speciality College, Medical Association  
• Rocha Nogueira, PNSOC Coordinator, DGS Occupational Medicine Today  
• Domingos Carneiro de Freitas, Clinical Director CSP, ULSAAVE  
• Vítor Brasileiro, President, National Association of Occupational Nurses  
• Lorenzo Munar, Project Director, EU-OSHA  
• Clara Paz Dias, Clinical Director CSH, ULSAAVE  
• Ana Colim, Researcher, DTX - Colab  
• João Alexandre, OHS Director, AMARSUL  
• Ana Isabel Pereira, Deputy Coordinator of the Centre for Research in Digitalisation and Intelligent Robotics at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança/CeDRI-IPB  
• Abel Pires and Pedro Reis, OSH Coordinator, MC SONAE  
• Ricardo Araújo, Mayor, Guimarães City Council  
• Pedro Cunha, Chairman of the Board of Directors, ULSAAVE  
• Miguel Berbereia Costa, Director of the Ave Local Centre, ACT