Digitization changes the working world - we all know that. While agriculture, industry and skilled trade had a nine-to-five working day in the past, networking and continuing flow of information sometimes render the nine-to-five job obsolete. The multimedia-based job involves its very own health risks. Prof. Hans Drexler spoke with MEDICA-tradefair.com about occupational medicine in a networked economy, why powered off servers do not reduce stress and how corporate health physicians can reach people before they actually get sick.Prof. Drexler, the German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Arbeits- und Umweltmedizin) DGAUM recently published a report with 14 statements on occupational medicine 4.0. These days, this type of version numbers can be found quite often. What exactly is behind all this?Prof. Hans Drexler: We occupational physicians take our cue from the term Industry 4.0 here, that being global networking in a multimedia society that also includes new health risks for the employees. Of course, we should remember that there are still jobs in agriculture, skilled trade and the industry with their respective health risks - work 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 so to speak. However, "Occupational Medicine 4.0" guides the employees into the new industry. ...
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