Workplace safety and fleet managers face growing challenges as driver overconfidence and confusing vehicle technology create critical risks for employees who drive for work.
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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.
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