Why safety professionals must step up to ensure the fair roll-out of new tech
Technology like AI has great potential to improve workplace safety, but it could also negatively affect wellbeing through excessive monitoring of work performance or personal health parameters, reaching inaccurate conclusions without sufficient human oversight and analysis. Safety professionals are, however, uniquely placed to ensure new tech is used ethically, fairly and in ways that genuinely support employee safety and health.
By Dr Julie Riggs, British Safety Council on 30 June 2026
