The Prevention 4.0 project aimed to develop concrete recommendations and guidelines for preventive work design in the Work 4.0 era, enabling workplace stakeholders to effectively leverage the potential of occupational prevention in a digitalized work environment.

As part of the project, comprehensive expertise for specialists was compiled, along with an action guide featuring the self-assessment tool "Prevention 4.0 / Mittelstand 4.0." This action guide was co-developed as a national best practice standard within the framework of the Offensive Mittelstand initiative.

Project Partners:

1. BC GmbH – Research and Consulting Company

2. Forum for Social Technology Design

3. ifaa - Institute of Applied Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics

4. BGF Institute – Institute for Workplace Health Promotion GmbH

5. IfM Bonn – Institute for SME Research

6. itb – German Institute for Skilled Crafts Research

7. sfs – Social Research Center / Technical University

8. VDSI – Association for Safety, Health & Environmental Protection at Work e.V.

The "Prevention 4.0" collaborative project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the PTKA Project Management Agency at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).