Occupational health and safety risks for the aging worker

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• Personal Author:
  Johns DO ; Weissman, David N.
• Description:
  The US population is aging, and so is the US workforce. This is being driven by factors beyond demographics; faced with longer life expectancy, economic uncertainty, and the uncertain future of retirement funding mechanisms such as Social Security and employer pension plans, many people want to work longer. Challenged by shortages of qualified workers, many employers also want to keep experienced workers on the job longer. Thus, it is in the interest of workers, employers, and the nation to optimize the chance that workers remain healthy, safe, and productive as they age. It is increasingly accepted that the best way to achieve this goal is through a multigenerational, multifaceted approach that protects workers from occupational hazards causing illness and injury, promotes behaviors that improve health and well-being, and facilitates better quality of life and continued productivity through adoption of "age friendly" workplace programs and policies. Thus, anticipating and addressing the challenges of an aging workforce is an important current need. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Behavior Demography Environmental Exposure Eye Hazardous Substances Health Promotion Hearing Loss Mental Health Musculoskeletal System Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Race Factors Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sense Organs Stress, Psychological Vision Disorders Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Demographic-characteristics Disease-prevention Hazardous-materials Health-programs Health-protection Hearing-loss Industrial-exposures Injury-prevention Job-stress Lost-work-days Mental-processes Mental-stress Musculoskeletal-system Occupational-exposure Occupations Performance-capability Physical-capacity Physical-stress Physiological-function Racial-factors Risk-analysis Risk-factors Sociological-factors Task-performance Vision-disorders Work-environment Worker-health Workers

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• ISBN:
  9789814613385
• Publisher:
  Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046062
• Citation:
  Toxicology and risk assessment. Fan AM, Khan EM, Alexeeff GV, eds. Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., 2015 Mar; :1087-1103
• Contact Point Address:
  Douglas O. Johns, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
• Email:
  djohns@cdc.gov
• Editor(s):
  Fan AM; Khan EM; Alexeeff GV
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Toxicology and risk assessment
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:757a28998436d5cc9214f4c55c5bbc1fbbab34add025905c5e182f80ca89fdcd1eb1a782c4b66ef90b41a32bedf9ee19b8f7f3ec7c0c52e6d07e9f6476e6e0ac
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201239/cdc_201239_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 436.96 KB ]