The challenges the experiment wants to address concern the lack of security in the workplace and consequently, the high number of injuries and deaths reported daily. Currently it is still open the issue of how to best support a professional operator that must perform delicate tasks such as maintenance, inspections while moving within complex and dangerous contests such as construction sites, civil works, port terminals, etc.

The data on safety in the workplace dramatically include injuries and deaths not properly diffused among mass media. In fact, from 1 January to 1 May 2021 in Italy more than one person died daily at work. A massacre that, in the course of 2021 affected already 120 people, according to Anmil, the National Association of Mutilated and Invalid Workers.

In a global industrial context there is an accident in the workplace every 15 seconds (Source ILO, International Labour Organization) with an impact on GDP of about 4% (Source Inail).

Digitization has a strong impact on society and employees, measured in the lives saved by increasing safety at work. In reality, digitization is not just about technology, but its transformative effect on employees and workplaces.

The experiment addresses the issue concerning safety of workers operating in highly dynamic environments such as, for example, construction sites and port terminals, exposed to risks of different  nature and degree. The aim of the project is to experiment a solution in which the operator, equipped with wearable sensors and virtual reality tools and in continuous connection with a central processing system, can move within a working context in a more conscious and safer way. The experiment will increase the digitalisation level of T&G through the integration of anthropocentric technologies based on AR/VR, IoT, AI in the solutions currently proposed by T&G to support workers operating in complex environments and provide them a higher safety at work.