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Technological challenges
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Smart mobile ad hoc sensor network.
Non-invasive sensors for vital data.
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Adaptive environment control.
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Powerful context and user models.
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4.7. Safety and health regulations
The right to work, safety and welfare are principles that are internationally recognized
and accepted. Despite this, statistics show that the prevalence of work injuries and
occupational disease is very high: every year in the EU alone there are 150,000 deaths
caused by work-related accidents (8,900) and occupational diseases (142,000)
(
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work,
2008).
This problem has such high relevance that both individual countries and
international organizations and institutions have developed laws, regulations and
agencies to control and prevent damage to health of workers.
