NEW CHALLENGES FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN TIMES OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN EUROPE: THE ROLE OF DIGITAL LABOUR PLATFORMS

如今，许多研究集中于评估欧洲的平台经济(例如，调查其规模、商业模式、职业和工人的工作特征等)，令人惊讶的是，平台工作对职业安全和健康(OSH)的影响在很大程度上仍然没有受到关注。在此背景下，拟议项目旨在(I)调查平台工作的OSH风险和法规，以及(Ii)根据本研究的结果，为欧洲国家的平台工人提供促进安全和健康的职业环境的建议。为了实现这些目标，该项目采用了混合方法的研究设计，分为两个工作包(WP)，涉及居住在比利时、丹麦、芬兰、波兰、西班牙、瑞典和英国的平台工人。WP1将组成一个欧洲混合方法的平台工人队列。WP1将纵向探讨平台工作与职业健康安全相关的方式--风险和健康状况不佳，以及平台工人在其工作中的职业安全经验。WP2旨在研究如何促进平台工作的更安全、更健康的职业环境的变化。为此，WP2将探讨平台工作经理如何看待员工/工人的职业健康安全、维持健康工作环境的平台的特点，以及工作平台对职业安全健康构成的监管背景和挑战。这两个WPS将探索不同国家和平台工作形式的相似性和差异性，从而将不同监管环境下关于卫生和平台工作的发现与背景联系起来。这一项目的预期结果将提供对未来工作领域未得到充分研究和不断发展的挑战的新的和原创的科学理解。在新的科学理解的基础上，该项目将为政策制定者、公司和工会提供新的指导，以保护欧洲劳动力的健康。

Many studies nowadays focus on taking stock of the platform economy in Europe (e.g., investigating its magnitude, business models, career and job characteristics of workers, ...), surprisingly the occupational safety and health (OSH) implications of platform work have remained largely under the radar. Against this background, the proposed project aims to (i) investigate the OSH risks and regulations of platform work and (ii) provide recommendations to foster a safe and healthy occupational environment for platform workers in European countries based on the results of this study. Pursuing these aims, the project adopts a mixed-method study design organised into two work packages (WP) and involves platform workers living in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. WP1 will consist in a European mixed-method cohort of platform workers. WP1 will explore longitudinally ways in which platform work is associated with OSH-risks and poor health and the experiences of platform workers in regard to OSH of their jobs. WP2 aims to research ways for promoting changes for safer and healthier occupationalenvironments for platform work. For doing so, WP2 will explore how do platform work managers perceive the OSH of employees/workers, what are the characteristics of platforms that maintain a healthy work environment and what are the regulatory contexts and challenges in terms of OSH posed by platform of work. Both WPs will explore similarities and differences across countries and forms of platform work, thereby contextualising the findings about health and platform work within different regulatory environments. The expected results of this project will provide new and original scientific understanding of an understudied and evolving challenge for the future world of work. Drawing on the new scientific understanding, the project will provide new guidance for policymakers, companies and trade unions to protect the health of the European workforce.