{"id":33773,"date":"2025-02-27T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/germany-a-guide-to-better-management-of-ageing-in-the-workplace\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:33:20","slug":"germany-a-guide-to-better-management-of-ageing-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/en\/germany-a-guide-to-better-management-of-ageing-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"GERMANY: a guide to better management of ageing in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the ageing of the workforce, the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) has published the first edition of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baua.de\/DE\/Angebote\/Publikationen\/Praxis\/A115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI)<\/a><\/span>. This handbook lists concrete actions to improve the working lives of older workers in the workplace, and includes a questionnaire for any organization wishing to self-assess on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The main challenge is to preserve the health, performance, employability and motivation of employees until the end of their careers. In this context, several measures are aimed at reducing age-related occupational risks, such as musculoskeletal disorders, sensory loss and psychological risks associated with retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Among the concrete recommendations outlined in the LLWI, an organization can :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>encourage health programs by offering adapted group sports classes and physiotherapy sessions, or encourage soft mobility and the use of stairs in the workplace;<\/li>\n<li>guarantee equal opportunities for people of all ages when recruiting, applying for training, promotion or accessing positions of responsibility;<\/li>\n<li>adapting working conditions to the needs of the worker, e.g. increasing lighting capacity, purchasing more comfortable tools or providing larger, more visible control buttons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baua.de\/DE\/Services\/Presse\/Pressemitteilungen\/2025\/02\/pm06-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To find out more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the ageing workforce, the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) has published the first edition of the Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":33771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[909],"class_list":["post-33773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abroad"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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