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Navigating the future: Safer workplaces in the Age of AI

British Safety Council’s white paper, ‘Navigating the future: Safer workplaces in the Age of AI’ investigates the role that AI will play in the workplaces of the future and makes a series of policy recommendations aimed at keeping workers safe in AI-powered workplaces.

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Future of Work Roundtable:

British Safety Council was pleased to host our Future of Work Roundtable, bringing together leading voices across policy, regulation, education, and consultancy to discuss the role that technology plays – and will continue to play - in building safer workplaces, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974). 

Research report: Future risk

Impact of work on health, safety and wellbeing

A literature review by British Safety Council and Robertson Cooper brings together the latest evidence, mostly from UK, into how work is likely to change in the future, what the probable impact will be on people's physical and mental wellbeing and what employers, trade unions, educators and government should do now to prepare for the future.

Download the Future Risk report

Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Manifesto:

Ahead of the UK’s 2024 General Election, British Safety Council published our Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Manifesto, which made seven calls across four areas of policy. These ambitious calls look to produce the safer, healthier, and happier workplaces of the future, providing employees with the safety skills they need and rewarding early adopters for using new and developing technologies to improve workplace safety standards.

Read our Manifesto

What next? A few recommendations from British Safety Council

Alongside the recommendations contained within our ‘Navigating the Future: Safer Workplaces in the Age of AI’ white paper, British Safety Council recommends:

  • That Government seeks a global framework for the development of AI, that aligns the design, development, and deployment of AI models with agreed human values (directed towards societal and human betterment).
  • That policymakers design robust regulatory frameworks (at both international and domestic levels) to put worker health, safety, and wellbeing at the heart of AI design, development and deployment.
  • That Government incentivises the uptake of new and developing technologies, when used to improve workplace health, safety, and wellbeing standards, by creating a corporation tax offset of 5% of related spend.
  • For AI developers and the global technology sector to understand that the technological promise of the future cannot justify putting workers, around the world, at risk today.
  • That Government and industry continue to research the risks that may emerge from the changing nature of work alongside how to mitigate them.