We have taken World Health Day on 7 April as an opportunity to deal with the topics of occupational medicine and occupational safety. We asked the occupational physician Dr. Ortrud Gräf. The doctor is on the board of the AMD Salzburg, the Society for Occupational Medicine, Safety Technology and Occupational Psychology.

As trendy as smart textile products are currently, there are so few standards and quality assurance systems for them. The student Jasmin wants to change that and is doing research for four months for her master’s thesis at ADRESYS. Sweat is a big issue here.

More than 100,000 occupational accidents occur every year in Austria, and more than eight times as many in Germany. Most of them are comparatively harmless, but a considerable number threaten health and life. This is often because an accident is discovered too late and help is provided too late. To prevent this from happening again, we have developed ANGEL.