Working conditions and "sustainability": converting knowledge into action
"This report synthetizes - and converts into guidelines for action - available knowledge, mainly in ergonomics, in order to characterize “sustainable” working conditions and find out several avenues for improvement. This synthesis has been asked for by Eurofound to CEE and Creapt. Here the issu...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| Format: | TEXT |
| Language: | English |
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Noisy-le-Grand
2015
CEET |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19100764124919289469-Working-conditions-and-sustain.htm |
| Summary: | "This report synthetizes - and converts into guidelines for action - available knowledge, mainly in ergonomics, in order to characterize “sustainable” working conditions and find out several avenues for improvement. This synthesis has been asked for by Eurofound to CEE and Creapt. Here the issue of “sustainability” refers back to the following questions: do these conditions enable people to remain healthy, fully integrated and efficient employees throughout their career? If this is not the case, what types of obstacles do these workers encounter? What are the consequences for them personally? What are the results in terms of their occupational health, skills development and economic efficiency?
Starting with the major changes in working patterns, as presented in a large number of research and statistical studies (including the European five-year survey), the aim of the report is to ask whether these changes are compatible with the demographic trend of an ageing working population.
The authors first specify the angle from which they intend to address the issue of "sustainability", and its links with the ageing of the workforce. Next, they examine four major changes (or "non-changes"), setting out the challenges they pose in relation to the changing age profiles: significant on-going physical constraints in the workplace; the slow but continuous rise in shift work, in particular night work; the growing prevalence of time constraints; and increasing pace of change in the workplace. In the end these analyses lead them to re-examine the overall approach to "sustainability", highlighting how and why this preoccupation deserves to take centre stage in economic and social policy at every level." |
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| Physical Description: | 43 p. Digital |