Abstract
Work-related musculoskeletal problems, stress, burnout, and age-related functional decline are costly for workers, organisations, and public systems, but the evidence we need to prevent them is often fragmented across disciplines, countries, sectors, and institutions.
Initiatives such as the EU-OSHA OSH Barometer play a crucial role in making occupational safety and health data visible, comparable, and accessible at European and national levels. However, these efforts primarily rely on aggregated statistics, surveys, and public datasets.
The WAge Occupational Health Data Space (WOHDS) complements these initiatives by addressing a different layer of the data ecosystem: enabling secure, sovereign sharing of detailed research and organisational data that is currently difficult to combine or reuse across projects and borders..
In WAge, we’re developing an occupational health research infrastructure designed to make it practical to collaborate across organisations while still protecting privacy and data sovereignty.