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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming part of modern workplaces, and its potential in occupational health and safety is growing every day. Most discussions focus on AI's ability to analyse data, identify hazards and support risk assessments. These are important developments, but there is another perspective that deserves more attention. What if the future of workplace safety is not only about smarter technology, but also about a deeper understanding of how people think,

Cognitive Safety - a deeper approach to occupational safety

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This case illustrates well how a law that emphasizes objectives, but is less detailed, works in cases where the spirit of the law is attempted to be evaded on the basis of formalities. This is a case where a company had commissioned an installation company to install a loading crane that the company had purchased on a crane stand, after which the installation company was to install the combination on the company's truck. When an employee of the company had used the crane at w

This case is interesting because it was decided by the Supreme Administrative Court. The background to the case was the company's indoor air problems, which had already caused respiratory illnesses among employees. The regional administrative authority had imposed a conditional fine of 8,000 euros on the company to enforce its obligation to provide a report on the condition of the structures and materials in the workplace that affected indoor air. According to the regional ad

It's a good idea to start the blog with a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court from 2014: "X Oy had built a parking garage as the main contractor in 2007. On September 19, the company's intention was to blast the rock wall of a gateway to make it thinner. On the other side of the rock wall was a parking garage already in use , where cars and people were moving. The thinning excavation failed in such a way that the blasting had loosened and thrown pieces of rock towards t