About GIFIS | Pioneering Global Industrial Safety

The Global Initiative for
Industrial Safety

The speed of innovation and technology adoption within industries is creating gaps in knowledge and awareness of worker safety and wellbeing. One of the main reasons for this imbalance is the lack of information and uncertainty around the possible impacts of new human–machine interactions and the potential physical and psychosocial hazards for workers and users of new technology. Currently, there is no effective, centralised forum or platform addressing these challenges.

The Initiative

The initiative brings together a global coalition of stakeholders that puts safety at the heart of Fourth Industrial Revolution developments. It also aims to make the world a safer place by developing tools and resources to advance safety capabilities in the industrial sector. The initiative's activities should have three key outcomes

Providing new evidence, insights and thought leadership

Raising awareness and disseminating information around industrial safety

Building a resource platform and communities of practice.

Objectives

Initiating policy,
promoting best practice,
and building capability

Creating a global
community to discuss
future challenges and solutions

Building consensus and
sharing knowledge,
leading to universal
guidelines, standards,
and training