Articles tagged under ‘Aging workforce’

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• Testing the database changeover by Unni

  Testing the changeover for any errors

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• Fanol Isai: RTW in Aged Care

  Fanol Isai from Catholic Homes won the “Return to Work Coordinator Excellence” WorkSafe Victoria award in 2014.

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• Aged Care Homes: a cross-generational solution

  An aged care facility in Deventer in the Netherlands has found a creative solution to the ‘intergenerational problem.’

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• Driving change

  How one car manufacturer steered their ageing workforce towards higher productivity

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• Why bother with workplace wellness?

  1. Return on investment; 2. Health and productivity for ageing workers...

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• The age of manual handling

  Qantas at Brisbane Airport safely retains older manual handling workers by asking whether there is a match between required tasks and individual capacity...

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• New vision for old

  The ageing workforce may necessitate more accommodations for vision loss. What are the high and low tech options?

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• What helps people with long-term disease remain at work?

  Making work modifications for workers with a long-term disease can help them avoid sickness absence and work disability, and improve their productivity.

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• Worried about the ageing workforce?

  We corral five notorious porky pies about work and ageing and pit them against the fast-draw facts.

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• On the clock and over the hill? Ageing workers in physical industries

  We can't turn back the clock, but we can offer advice on how to minimise the impact of age on "work ability" in physically intensive industries.

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• Occupational health - what's age got to do with it?

  For men and women entrance to mid-life will affect them - at home and at work - in different ways. Occupational medicine can help.

Archived Articles 1 - 2 of 2

• The age debate

  Abbott and Gillard are right: population size does matter. But are they forgetting about the challenges to participation and productivity posed by Australia's ageing workforce?

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• Prime RTW

  If an 80 year old butcher with a twice-torn rotator cuff sounds like a tough RTW gig, meet Keith Schwarze from Queensland, whose love for his job made him determined to work again.

Research 1 - 1 of 1

• Age + overtime = Lower productivity??? - the evidence

  Research shows that older workers CAN work overtime and remain productive