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Abstract
The essay analyses the AI Act in the frame of EU machinery requirements regulation starting from the labour rights as human rights international debate and then exploring its possible impact on the Italian OSH legislation with particular reference to the employer’s obligation to assess risks and the safety requirements of work equipment, referred to in Title III of Legislative Decree No. 81/2008. In envisaging the adaptation of the prevention discipline to the AI Act, account is taken of the essential link between it and the entire European technical harmonization legislation and, in particular, with Regulation (EU) No. 2023/1230 (Machinery Regulation). On this conceptual basis, the contribution also explores the compatibility of the aforementioned regulatory interweaving with the parameters for assessing the liability of the employer, designers, manufacturers and suppliers developed by the case law in implementation of the aforementioned provisions of Legislative Decree No. 81/2008.
Keywords
EU frame on digital economy, Labour rights as human rights, AI Act, Working machinery’s OSH requirements, OSH risk assessment, Employers’, Manufacturers’ and supply chain actors’ liability