An Ontological Approach for Run-Time Safety Management in Smart Work Environments

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodology for run-time safety management in Smart Work Environments (SWE), based on a semantic assessment of the risks, based on defined indicators. To assess SWE safety, we define a novel ontological model for representing its characteristics and introduce a metric for run-time evaluation of the SWE safety level. A description logic reasoner is used to automatically check the consistency of the proposed ontology. The novelty of the approach lies in treating safety at run-time.