OLDER WORKERS

Not dead yet
We all have different strengths and weakness, young and old. And properly designed work should be safe and healthy whoever is doing it. So why are older workers told they are no longer up to the job?
Hazards magazine, number 96, October/December 2006

Resources

Hazards age webpages

Hazards work and health webpages

TUC workSMART ten point age regulation myth-buster

HSE age and gender statistics

FIOH ‘Ageing and work’ webpages

European Foundation ‘age’ webpages

European Foundation ‘Ageing and work’ webpages.

TAEN – The Age and Employment Network, 207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ. Tel: 020 7843 1590.

Agebusters website

DWP’s Age Positive project

Employers Forum on Age (EFA)

An update of the literature on age and employment, HSE research report RR832, January 2011

European Foundation ageing workforce case studies

Age and working conditions in the European Union, European Foundation, 2003.

Foundation Focus - Issue 2: Age and employment, European Foundation, September 2006.

Employment in Europe, European Commission, October 2003.
Summary document [pdf] or and full report [pdf].

ACAS Age in the workplace advice leaflet. ACAS helpline on 08457 47 47 47.

Why should a workplace look at issues concerning ageing workers?, CCOHS factsheet, Canada, 2002.

Older workers: living longer, working longer, DELSA newsletter issue 2, OECD, 2006. [pdf]