21 March 2023, 10.00 – 16.00

Hybrid workshop: EU-OSHA´s premises, Bilbao (Spain) or Online

Digital platform work

The implications for occupational safety and health (OSH)

Digital platform work: the implications for occupational safety and health (OSH)

Digital platform work is all paid work provided through, on or mediated by an online platform, that is, an online marketplace operating on digital technologies that facilitate the matching of demand for and supply of labour. The work provided through the platforms can be very diverse: it can involve complex or simple tasks, cognitive or manual tasks, and it can be provided online and be entirely virtual, or on-site and be provided in person. Digital platform work brings employment opportunities to workers, but it also entails a number of challenges and risks for workers' OSH that need to be addressed.

The workshop will bring together experts and policy-makers at the EU and Member State/EU country levels. The objective is to present and discuss the findings from EU-OSHA's research work consisting in an overview of research, policy and practices in relation to digital platform work and the implications for OSH. Part of this work is already available on EU-OSHA¨s website (reports, policy briefs, summaries available at https://osha.europa.eu/en/themes/digitalisation-work). More research is still on-going and will be presented at the workshop. The perspectives from other EU bodies will also be presented and discussed.

Agenda

21 March 2023, 10.00 – 16.00

10:00

Welcome and introduction

William Cockburn, Interim Executive Director, EU-OSHA

10:10

Latest EU policy developments in relation to digital platform work

Francisco Jesús Alvarez Hidalgo, Policy Officer, European Commission, Unit “Health and Safety at Work”

10:20

Challenges, risks and opportunities for OSH, policies for OSH prevention, and platform work case examples

Dirk Gillis, Senior research associate, HIVA, KU Leuven (Belgium)

10:55

Diversity and OSH in the digital platform economy

Dr. Karolien Lenaerts, Research Manager & Head ad interim, HIVA, KU Leuven (Belgium)

11:15

Surveillance of platform workers

Annarosa Pesole, independent expert, formerly advisor to the Italian Ministry of Labour on digital platform work (Italy)

11:35

Break

11:55

Practical tools and recommendations for OSH prevention

Dr. Iván Williams Jiménez, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health – IOSH

12:15

A Guide on Risk Assessment for content moderation work

Patricia Murray, Senior Psychologist (Organisational)/Inspector, Health and Safety Authority (Ireland)

12:35

Perspectives from other EU bodies

Dragos Adascalitei, Research Officer, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)
Enrique Fernandez Macias, Senior Research Manager, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC)
Vytautas Peciukonis, Research Officer, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
Questions and answers

13:15

Lunch

14:15

Parallel group work sessions

Break-out session 1 (in-person participants): Facilitated by Emmanuelle Brun, EU-OSHA
Break-out session 2 (online participants): Facilitated by Maurizio Curtarelli, EU-OSHA
Break-out session 3 (online participants): Facilitated by Dietmar Elsler, EU-OSHA

15:00

Break

15:15

Reporting back from the parallel group work sessions and plenary discussion

Rapporteur session 1: Kate Palmer, EU-OSHA
Rapporteur session 2: Annick Starren, EU-OSHA
Rapporteur session 3: Ioannis Anyfantis, EU-OSHA

15:50

Wrap-up and closure

Maurizio Curtarelli, Research Project Manager, EU-OSHA

16:00

End

Material

Digital platform work: the implications for occupational safety and health (OSH)
Questions for the parallel group work sessions (14.15-15.00)

William Cockburn, Interim Executive Director, EU-OSHA
Introduction

Dirk Gillis
An overview of OSH policies, research and practices in the context of digital platform work, through review of existing data and information, fieldwork research and policy analysis in the European Union

Karolien Lenaerts
Workforce diversity and digital platform work: Implications for OSH risk prevention

Annarosa Pesole
Surveillance of Platform Workers, a pragmatic policy approach

Iván Williams Jiménez
Practical tools and recommendations for OSH prevention

Patricia Murray
Improving psychological wellbeing and reducing risk: Content Moderation work

Dragos Adascalitei
Platform work initiatives in Europe: a stock taking exercise

Vytautas Peciukonis
Platform work and gender equality: key findings from EIGE survey

Video Pills

Play video 1
Welcome and introduction

Play video 2 - Francisco Jesús Alvarez Hidalgo
Latest EU policy developments in relation to digital platform work

Play video 3 - Dirk Gillis
Challenges, risks and opportunities for OSH, policies for OSH prevention, and platform work case examples

Play video 4 - Dr. Karolien Lenaerts
Diversity and OSH in the digital platform economy

Play video 5 - Annarosa Pesole
Surveillance of platform workers

Play video 6 - Dr. Iván Williams Jiménez
Practical tools and recommendations for OSH prevention

Play video 7 - Patricia Murray
A Guide on Risk Assessment for content moderation work

Play video 8 - Dragos Adascalitei
Perspectives from other EU bodies

Play video 9 - Enrique Fernandez Macias
Perspectives from other EU bodies

Play video 10 - Vytautas Peciukonis
Perspectives from other EU bodies