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    Sustainable work and healthy ageing for all: EU launches major campaign

    npsBy nps17 April 2016Updated:25 June 2024 No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Sustainable work and healthy ageing for all: EU launches major campaign

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    (BRUSSELS) – A new EU campaign focuses on Europe’s enterprises and the need to promote sustainable work and healthy ageing from the beginning of working life.

    The Healthy Workplaces for All Ages campaign, launched by the European Commission and the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) in cooperation with the Netherlands EU Presidency, will last two years and is the world’s biggest campaign in this area.

    Its objectives are:

    • to promote sustainable work and healthy ageing from the beginning of working life;
    • to highlight the importance of risk prevention throughout working life;
    • to assist employers and workers (including in small and medium-sized enterprises) by providing information and tools for managing occupational safety and health in the context of an ageing workforce;
    • to facilitate information and good practice exchange.

    Director of EU-OSHA Christa Sedlatsche underlined the business case for this campaign topic: “By focusing on sustainable working throughout working life, not only can all workers better protect their health, but companies are likely to see major benefits too. Healthy workers are productive workers, and productive workers are essential to any effective organisation: it’s a win–win situation. We therefore highly value the cooperation between EU-OSHA and our focal points, official campaign partners and media partners and thank them for all their efforts in previous campaigns. We look forward to working with them again over the next two years.”

    Commissioner Marianne Thyssen said: “We need to start now to cater for the needs of Europe’s future workplaces and workers. Workplaces that address the health challenges of an ageing workforce gain in productivity. This is good for workers and good for business.”

    As part of the campaign, EU-OSHA is releasing an e-guide on managing safety and health for an ageing workforce.

    Background

    The Healthy Workplaces for All Ages 2016-17 campaign raises awareness of the importance of good occupational safety and health management and risk prevention throughout the working life and of tailoring work to individual abilities — whether at the start of a worker’s career or at its close. Like previous Healthy Workplaces Campaigns, it is coordinated at national level by EU-OSHA’s focal points and supported by official campaign and media partners.

    The campaign has been launched on 15 April 2016. Key dates in the campaign calendar include the European Weeks for Safety and Health at Work (October 2016 and 2017) and the Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards ceremony (April 2017). The campaign will end with the Healthy Workplaces Summit (November 2017), when all those who have contributed to the campaign will come together with EU-OSHA to take stock of the campaign’s achievements and the lessons learnt.

    The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) contributes to making Europe a safer, healthier and more productive place to work. The Agency researches, develops, and distributes reliable, balanced, and impartial safety and health information and organises pan-European awareness raising campaigns. Set up by the European Union in 1994 and based in Bilbao, Spain, the Agency brings together representatives from the European Commission, Member State governments, employers’ and workers’ organisations, as well as leading experts in each of the EU Member States and beyond.

    Further information

    • Find out more about the Healthy Workplaces for All Ages campaign at the campaign website.
    • Use the e-guide to find out how to manage safety and health for an ageing workforce.

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