Digitisation, health & work

Team

Jan Vitera

Sandra Lemanski

 

 

This working group deals with practice-oriented issues in the context of occupational, organisational and health psychology.

Key topics

Topics for project module, research internships & qualification work

Overview of the state of research in relation to e.g:

  • Use of digitalisation/AI for more sustainability (better use of resources)
  • Implementation of sustainability in SMEs
  • Human-AI interaction in the context of risk assessment of mental stress
  • Changing leadership/management concepts/instruments through digitalisation/use of AI/sustainability
  • Analysis of future topics and support needs of companies in MV

(Jan Vitera and Sandra Lemanski - Future Centre Mecklenburg-Vorpommern +)

 

Mental health and dealing with stress in the work context
and the risk assessment of mental stress

  • Good, healthy design of AI; human-AI interaction
  • Mental stress factors during the introduction/use of AI
  • Health competence in the work context / the healthy organisation
  • Obstacles to the integration of occupational medical examinations (findings) into company-specific occupational health and safety (health promotion/health management)
  • Implementation of new (also digital) forms of occupational health care
  • Interdisciplinary research project on ‘Evaluation of a micro-intervention through diary studies with personalised feedback in the work context’

(Jan Vitera and Sandra Lemanski)

 

Completed Projects

GAP

Healthy work in pioneering industries - Healthy work in pioneer industries

 

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)- FKZ 01 FA 15036
Project duration: 01/2016 - 04/2019

The aim of the project is the development and testing of self-learning, network-coordinated occupational health and safety in pioneer industries under the conditions of technological and demographic change. The focus is on the design of work in the course of digitization and networking of operational processes, which are currently being discussed as Industry 4.0.

Target industries for the project are photonics, semiconductor technology and renewable energies. Their companies often have small and medium-sized business structures, but are often able to compensate for size-specific disadvantages through networking strategies. The three participating technology networks each represent these sectors with an exposed regional relevance. They pursue the goal of improved support for their member companies in the field of occupational health and safety. To this end, implementation concepts are being developed together with interdisciplinary university partners in Jena (sociology), Greifswald (psychology) and Dresden (medicine). The Jena University of Applied Sciences (business informatics) acts as a further scientific and technical-logistical partner.

The project partners use initial experiences of Industry 4.0 implementation in larger companies, build on the existing AGS routines in SMEs and further develop them adaptively. It is important to determine the potential of technological change and the consequences for work. Concepts for holistic health protection are developed by the operational project partners. This creates new operational concepts for prospective risk assessment and strategies for the networks for the sustainable development of the AGS field of action. Networking, transfer and utilization goals are organized as self-learning AGS systems. The exchange of social partners, companies, networks and authorities in prevention alliances plays a key role in this.

Offshore-Project

Offshore-Project

Aim: Evidence and dialogue-based recommendations for occupational health and safety in the offshore sector

Not only the construction and dismantling of wind farms, but above all their long-term operation ensures an ongoing need for various services. Working offshore in particular poses particular challenges. Whether on a ship, helicopter, platform or wind turbine, the safety and health of employees can be extremely endangered. The effort put into occupational health and safety is correspondingly high: specific regulations and instructions, adequate risk assessments and reliable safety equipment are intended to ensure safe and healthy work. Statistics on accidents, near misses and illnesses already provide indications of how successful the existing measures are. The health effects on the employees caused by the special features of working offshore are not represented there. With regard to both occupational safety and health protection, it can be stated that the employees' perspective has been largely neglected up to now. Their knowledge and experience hold the potential to decisively expand the current picture of the offshore working world and to identify necessary changes.

A joint project of the AFZ Rostock GmbH, ISC Training & Assembly GmbH and the Chair of Health and Prevention at the University of Greifswald is therefore investigating the questions:

  1. how offshore workers rate their safety and health at work, and
  2. what measures they propose to bring about an improvement in their situation.

 

The aim is therefore to develop evidence- and dialogue-based recommendations for occupational health and safety in the offshore area.

The processing of the questions takes place in different phases. In the pre-project phase, the research team first familiarizes itself with safety-relevant aspects of offshore work. To this end, the team takes part in several training courses and further education courses. The experiences flow into the conception phase of a questionnaire, which is accompanied by focus groups with experts and employees. The aim here is to develop a comprehensible, as short as possible and yet sufficiently precise instrument that is suitable for broad use in the various offshore areas of activity. The results of the survey are the starting point for the subsequent dialogue phase. As part of this, selected results are discussed in interviews and workshops with decision-makers and employees in order to derive concrete measures for occupational health and safety. Finally, the project results will be presented in various forums and made available to companies, decision-makers and actors.