time, they can also pose new risks, creating rigid work processes without much decision latitude, along 
with technical options for extreme surveillance and control (e.g. by constant geolocation), or pose new 
safety risks like working at height (renewable energies) or by exposure to materials with widely unknown 
health effects (e.g. nano). 
EU-OSHA has published several foresight studies to emphasise possible safety and health concerns. 
Examples are the reports and fact  sheets about new safety risks in green jobs (green buildings, solar 
energy, wind energy) published more than 10 years ago. Since 2015, EU -OSHA has been publishing 
reviews and discussion papers on emerging risks and foresight topics . This work covers topics like 
robotics, performance-enhancing drugs, 3D printing, monitoring technologies, developments in the e-
retail sector, artificial intelligence, platform work, Long COVID, exoskeletons and so on. In 2018, the 
Agency published a foresight report on new and emerging OSH risks associated with digitalisation.  
A well-known example of such changes in work processes causing new OSH challenges is the growing 
number of workers outside the premises of the employer , that is, at non- stationary or mobile 
workplaces or at home. This refers to the increasing amount of mobile work in transport, traffic and