1. What can be done for supporting active ageing at the workplace
What can be done for supporting active ageing at the workplace? Laurent Vogel (ETUC)
Intervention at the 5th ENWHP Conference « Healthy work in an ageing Europe » Linz, June 2006

2. Methodological and principle questions
The workplace is not a place of freedom
Heteronomous health policies are less efficient than autonomous health strategies
Strategies vs/ Behaviours
Working conditions are resulting in huge health inequalities including in the ageing processes
Inconsistency of preaching healthy behaviours in unhealthy workplaces

3. Some data Dublin Foundation Survey on Working Conditions (2000):
27 % of workers in the UE15 consider that their health and safety are at risk because of their work (12 NMS+cd: 40%)
42 % of workers in the Europe of 15 think they would be unable or unwilling to keep doing the same job until the age of 60 (12NMS+cd: 50%)

4. Some data (2)
Overall, 38.5% of the EU15 population aged between 55 and 64 were in employment in 2001
A kind of schizophrenia between macro policies on the labour market and micro policies at company level
Health selection among ageing workers is a factor of discrimination

5. « Healthy Work » means prevention since the very beginning of the working life
Only in Spain, 5 million workers exposed to carcinogens (ISTAS report, 2006)
In many branches present working conditions don’t allow employment sustainibility : building workers, nurses, call centers
Gender stereotypes v/ Work Sustainability

6. Some effects of musculoskeletal disorders among workers in an aeronautic plant (from Serge Volkoff)

7. Age et sleep length among journalists
Source Pavard & col., 1982

8. Use of psychotropic drugs among white collar workers with administrative jobs
Source Buisset & col., 1996 (enquête Estev)

9. The dynamic of prevention on health promotion
Direct impact
Indirect impact: empowerment of the workforce in health oriented strategies
Broadening the perspective in prevention
Long life sustainability of work
… for men and women
… promoting self awareness and initiatives of workers

10. Creating a « virtuous circle »