The Challenge
Bridging the Safety Gap in European Workplaces
Across Europe, many workplaces still face harmful substances such as respirable crystalline silica, ultrafine particles, incidental nanoparticles, volatile organic compounds (tVOCs), benzene, formaldehyde, PFAS, PAHs, microplastics, and more.
Current prevention strategies, monitoring methods, and regulatory approaches are not keeping pace with the scale and complexity of these risks. BRISA closes that gap by bringing together safer materials, smarter monitoring, and practical protection measures that can be deployed on the market.
Methodology layers
BRISA applies a multi-layered methodology to reduce workers’ exposure to harmful airborne substances.
Layer 1: Intelligence and Knowledge Base
We consolidate regulatory, toxicological, and exposure intelligence into FAIR datasets and harmonised protocols to support consistent, comparable decision-making.
Layer 2: Integrated Intervention and Control
We operationalise the Hierarchy of Controls through:
• Safer substitution routes (for example low-silica feedstocks, safer binders, coated minerals, and safer recycled polymers)
• Smart monitoring using semi-fixed, wearable, and stack sensor units, combined with AI-enabled digital twins to predict risks
• Adaptive protection with continuous risk management, alerts with human involvement, and immersive training
Layer 3: Systemic Assessment and Transfer
We validate solutions across five industrial pilots (ceramics, foundry, mineral fillers, ELT recycling, and plastics recycling), combining TRL6 demonstrations with sustainability and tox/ecotox evidence, techno-economic analysis, and a quantitative scoring framework built for safety.
Our impact
≥30–100%
substitution or reduction of hazardous substances
BRISA aims to deliver measurable improvements for industry and workers, including:
- Significant substitution or reduction of hazardous substances
- Major exposure decreases through better controls and real-time risk prediction
- Multiple FAIR datasets and protocols to strengthen industrial prevention strategies
- Practical training and digital learning modules to build long-term safety culture
≥30–100%
substitution or reduction of hazardous substances
≥50–70%
exposure decrease through better controls and real-time risk prediction
>45,000
Workers protected and averting hundreds of premature deaths annually by 2035
15–20%
Saving in compliance costs across the EU and cutting material and energy intensity by 5–15%
15–20%
Saving in compliance costs across the EU and cutting material and energy intensity by 5–15%
≥50–70%
exposure decrease through better controls and real-time risk prediction
>45,000
Workers protected and averting hundreds of premature deaths annually by 2035
Events & open days
Experience BRISA’s innovation in action! Stay tuned for our Open Days and Hackathons hosted by our 5 Industrial Pilot Cities:
Pilot 1: Ceramics (Spain)
Pilot 5: Plastics Recycling (Netherlands)
Pilot 2: Foundry (Germany)
Pilot 3: ELT Recycling (Poland)
Pilot 4: Mineral & Plastics (Türkiye)
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