“Ageing at workplace. A formal approach to R&D from the industry at the Platform on Industrial safety”

Paul Thomas, Microsoft Services Organisation, UK

Jan De Bruyne, Infrabel, Belgium

Catherina Van Eck, Johnson & Johnson, UK

Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari, Fraunhofer, Germany 

Rationale

“AAL at Work” has to be a part of employment and workplace-related policies to meet the main objectives of companies, trade unions and governments. This could be achieved by:

• increasing productivity and competitiveness through sustaining and increasing the competences of senior workforce
• maintaining the security and improving the health of the workforce
• learning and training for senior workforce to maintain competences
• improving the compatibility between work and private life taking into account cross generations needs

Technology development and systems solutions have to be adapted to existing structures in the workplace and work organisation; they have to be really “assistive”, which imposes a specific challenge on developers. It is therefore advisable to focus this session on one of the following specific application areas:

• The new workplace
• The “knowledge organisation”
• New concepts for learning and training of senior workforce
• Sustaining health at work
• Family carers: Cross generation compatibility of job and care
• The health and social care sector as a specific target for AAL