STW – Security for Transport Workers

Project objectives

The project aims to develop a system capable of analyzing the causes, effects, and characteristics of incidents involving assaults on transportation workers. This will support effective risk management, understand the connections between the analyzed events, and identify and evaluate various personal safety measures to facilitate the development of a policy to combat such incidents. The transportation sector is particularly exposed to occupational violence, as daily work activities involve direct interaction with users and are potentially at risk.

In Italy, more than 4.000 cases of workplace violence are recorded each year, and a growing percentage of these affect transport sector workers. However, there are no complete and comprehensive statistics describing the phenomenon.

Our project aims to fill this gap by creating a real database that allows us to understand the phenomenon in terms of its causes, dynamics, and effects, as well as contributing to the development of management and counteraction strategies capable of preventing and limiting the negative consequences for workers.

The project aims to create a monitoring dynamics of the phenomenon Creating a georeferenced database capable of not only capturing a specific moment in time, but also tracking its evolution in real time, thanks to the ability to merge information from operators with information automatically collected from open sources such as online news outlets.

This information will allow us to analyze the typical dynamics of aggression (how it starts, how it evolves, etc.) and identify the prodromal and contextualizing phenomena that increase/decrease the risk of violence, in order to support operators in the correct management of this class of risk.

Official website: http://www.coseritylab.it/projects/

Start and end date

2020 - 2022

Project Manager

Prof. Roberto Setola

Coordinating institution of the project

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Other Institutions involved

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (UNICATT)

Funding source(s).

INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work)