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The accident insurance institutions are challenged with
providing prevention services and finding access chan-
nels that address these changing conditions.
Prevention must find answers to the following questions:
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How can these changes in technology and the
organisation of work be shaped so that they are
“human-friendly”?
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What does OSH for mobile and flexible work have to
look like in order to keep people healthy?
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How can the same level of OSH be achieved for all
workers regardless of their form of employment?
•
How does company management have to design and
structure future management and control processes
in order to fulfil their responsibilities regarding safe-
ty and health?
•
Which communication channels to address workers
look promising?
•
How can the social accident insurance institutions
continue to develop their prevention concepts so
that they are still effective in a digital, high-tech and
flexible world of work?
The following principles are future-oriented:
1
Work design must be done prospectively. If it is no
longer possible to directly intervene in production
processes “by hand” and humans mainly have a
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