LITERATURE REVIEW CONCERNING SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT IN COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

The present paper addresses the issue of risk assessment in collaborative work environments specific to Industry 4.0, where robots and human operators must work together, in the automotive industry. The investigation methodology uses a literature review in the field, combined with a comparative analysis of reference standards based on interviews with industrial partners. The ranking of criteria is achieved using the AHP method and a combined conceptual framework is developed using the Pugh Concept Selection method. The study concludes that current references can be combined and extended based on new industrial principles, but this is a short-term solution, as the new challenges of Industry 5.0 will soon become a reality.