23 caught-in/between accidents, $10 million in bankrupt data, and 2 million GPUs for AWS — BPJ News (Morning Edition)
On the floor, “non-routine work safety” and “data exfiltration resilience” are being tested at the same time. Sales paths tilt to video. Investment tilts to “uptime guarantees.”
In the Reinan area of Fukui, work-related injuries that required four or more days off reached 23 cases in 2025, with non-routine tasks like inspections and alignment now at the center of the problem. Meanwhile AI is moving closer to the factory—but what tends to happen first isn’t runaway automation. It’s intrusion and leakage, where a print company’s “operating recipes” and business logs can become both an asset and a landmine.
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In the manufacturing floor across the Reinan region, “caught-in/between” and “entanglement” incidents tied to non-routine tasks—like inspections and position adjustments—are increasing, and the local labor standards office is calling for tighter countermeasures. On the labor-management side, oversight of 36 Agreements (Japan’s overtime labor-management agreement under Article 36 of the Labor Standards Act) is shifting its center of gravity from “hours” alone toward “whet…
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