This timely Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how aging affects occupational health and safety. Experts explore global trends and scientific theories on workplace aging to gain deeper insight into underlying issues in the field and identify areas for improvement.
This timely Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how aging affects occupational health and safety. Experts explore global trends and scientific theories on workplace aging to gain deeper insight into underlying issues in the field and identify areas for improvement.
This Research Handbook contains practical information on how to create a healthy and safe environment for older workers across different sectors, based on case studies and early intervention research. Pairing empirical investigations and theoretical perspectives, authors analyze how aging affects work ability, occupational health, and safety in the workplace. Topics covered include international rules and regulations on aging, the role of age in remote and hybrid work, and a recipe for successful aging. Ultimately, it sheds light on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace as older workers comprise a substantial part of the workforce.
This Research Handbook is an important read for scholars and students of human resource management, organizational and occupational psychology, and sociology and social policy. It is also a beneficial resource for employers, employees, and policymakers.
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These highly respected editors have assembled a group of leading researchers to examine the occupational health of older workers. This is a much-needed volume that applies a range of theoretical perspectives to an issue of increasing importance in todays world. -- Donald M. Truxillo, University of Limerick, Ireland
Contents
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Older Workers and
Occupational Health and Safety 1
Annet de Lange and Trude Furunes
PART I MACRO THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES, FIGURES, AND TRENDS
2 Occupational safety and health for older workers: a European
policy perspective 14
Kevin Teoh and Stavroula Leka
3 International rules and regulations: ageing, occupational safety
and health 34
Lothar Lieck
4 Successful aging at work: theoretical perspectives on aging and
occupational health 67
Josje Dikkers, Annet de Lange, and Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden
5 The role of age in remote and hybrid work 81
Susanne Scheibe and Sabine Hommelhoff
PART II MESO THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EVIDENCE-
BASED INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES
6 Meta-strategies of HRM practices for a multi-age workforce 105
Dorien Kooij, Karen Pak, Annet de Lange, Marc van
Veldhoven, and Ilke Inceoglu
7 Sustainable employability during the entire career: towards an
inclusive perspective on aging at work 126
Ingrid G. Boelhouwer, Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden, and
Tinka van Vuuren
8 Career shocks in an aging workforce: the role of major private
life events 151
Konrad Turek, Jos Akkermans, and Karen Pak
9 A recipe for successful aging: playful work design and other key
ingredients 172
Yuri S. Scharp and Arnold B. Bakker
10 Occupational health and safety interventions for older workers:
best practice 194
Gro Ellen Mathisen
11 Smart technology use on the work floor: potential benefits of new
technologies for aging workers safety and health 217
Maitta Spronken and Annet de Lange
12 Systemic perspectives on action research in meaningful case
studies on aging at work 234
Annet de Lange and Trude Furunes
13 Methodological perspectives on examining aging at work 256
Cort W. Rudolph and Hannes Zacher
PART III MICRO THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND
MEANINGFUL NARRATIVES
14 Narratives of bridge workers: lessons learned in terms of
adjustment processes 277
Trude Furunes and Annet de Lange
15 Women in mid-later life, health and work: a narrative of
uncertainty 298
Belinda Steffan, Wendy Loretto, and Sarah Vickerstaff
16 Narratives of older transgender sex workers: a study of India 313
Sucharita Maji, Kumari Sarika, and Devu Rajeev
PART IV SUMMARIZING
17 Lessons learned for designing inclusive healthy and safe
workplaces 335
Annet de Lange and Trude Furunes
Edited by Annet H. de Lange, Professor of Sustainable Employability, Open University, Heerlen and Senior Managing Consultant, Berenschot Groep B.V., Utrecht, the Netherlands and Professor II, Faculty of Work and Organizational Psychology, NTNU, Trondheim and Visiting Professor, NHS Department of Leadership and Service Innovation, the University of Stavanger and Trude Furunes, Professor of Leadership and Organization, NHS Department of Leadership and Service Innovation, University of Stavanger, Norway
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