An organization-wide system that integrates all the systems and processes of an Organization into a complete, efficient and effective structure, enabling the Organization to function as a single unit with unified objectives, optimizing resources for implementation, maintenance and audits to each Management system.
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Industrial Occupational Safety: Industry 4.0 Upcoming Challenges
Susana Pinto da Costa (University of Minho, Portugal) and Nélson Costa (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3059-7.ch006
Abstract
The new industrial revolution will encompass massive change. Manufacturing Companies are pursuing digitalization and trying to figure out how to implement collaborative robots, all the while trying to manage data safety and security. It is a big challenge to deal with all the needed infrastructures to handle the big data digitalization provides whilst having to account for the shielding of it. Even more so when one has to succeed at it while taking care of the workers, the sustainability of their jobs, the implementation of safe practices at work, based on the contributions of the whole, through efficient vertical communication, imbued with Safety Culture and aiming the sustainability of the Company itself. This chapter proposes to address the role of standardization in managing industry 4.0, where culture, Risk Management and Human Factors are key, and how the tools provided by these norms may contribute to nimbly balance each Company's needs.