Bologna / Wiesbaden, June 2026

AIAS – Associazione Italiana Ambiente e Sicurezza, founding member of ENSHPO – European Network of Safety and Health Professional Organisations, has been formally selected by the European Commission as a member of the AI Act Advisory Forum, established under Article 67 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the AI Act).

The Advisory Forum — registered as Group E04009 in the Commission’s Register of Expert Groups — comprises 173 organisations from across Europe and beyond, including leading technology companies, universities, research institutes, industry federations, civil society organisations and professional associations. Its mandate is to provide technical expertise and advisory input to the European AI Board and the European Commission on the implementation of the AI Act, covering opinions, recommendations, standardisation requests, and implementing acts.

Following a rigorous public selection process launched on 17 July 2025, AIAS has been confirmed as the only organisation in the Forum accredited specifically as an OSH/HSE professional association. This is not a marginal distinction: the AI Act explicitly identifies workers’ management, access to employment, individual worker monitoring, and safety of critical infrastructure among the high-risk AI application areas subject to the most stringent regulatory requirements. Having a dedicated OSH voice at this table is both strategically significant and practically necessary.

«This result is a milestone for the entire European OSH community», said ENSHPO President Ing. Francesco Santi. «Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how work is organised, how workers are monitored, and how safety decisions are made in real time on factory floors, construction sites and healthcare facilities. ENSHPO and AIAS are now formally part of the process that will define the European rules governing these systems. We will ensure that worker safety is not an afterthought in the AI governance debate, but a core design principle.»

The achievement owes a decisive debt to Avv. Roberto Sammarchi, whose contribution went well beyond managing the procedural aspects of the application. It was his curriculum vitae — embodying a rare and recognised expertise at the intersection of law, technology and occupational safety — that served as AIAS’s technical reference profile before the European Commission, and that proved instrumental in securing the organisation’s selection among the 173 members of the Forum.

ENSHPO, representing 17 national OSH professional organisations across Europe, views this appointment as a collective success for its entire network. The Forum’s work will be conducted primarily in English, with meetings at least twice per year on Commission premises or virtually, and an annual public report on its activities.

ENSHPO and AIAS will ensure that the perspectives of OSH professionals — grounded in the realities of working life across all sectors and all European countries — are actively integrated into the emerging European governance framework for Artificial Intelligence, fully consistent with the Vision Zero philosophy and the network’s long-standing commitment to safe, healthy and sustainable workplaces.

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Media contacts:

ENSHPO – European Network of Safety and Health Professional Organisations www.enshpo.eu | secretary@enshpo.eu

AIAS – Associazione Italiana Ambiente e Sicurezza www.aias-sicurezza.it | segreteria@networkaias.it