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Research Handbook on Older Workers and Occupational Health and Safety.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lange, Annet H. de, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Employment.
- Older people.
- Occupational health services.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- This timely Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how aging affects occupational health and safety. Experts explore global trends and scientific theories on workplace aging to gain deeper insight into underlying issues in the field and identify areas for improvement.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Older Workers and Occupational Health and Safety
- PART I: Macro Theoretical Perspectives, Figures, and Trends
- Chapter 2: Occupational safety and health for older workers: a European policy perspective
- Chapter 3: International rules and regulations: ageing, occupational safety and health
- Chapter 4: Successful aging at work: theoretical perspectives on aging and occupational health
- Chapter 5: The role of age in remote and hybrid work
- PART II: Meso Theoretical Perspectives and Evidence-Based Interventions and Practices
- Chapter 6: Meta-strategies of HRM practices for a multi-age workforce
- Chapter 7: Sustainable employability during the entire career: towards an inclusive perspective on aging at work
- Chapter 8: Career shocks in an aging workforce: the role of major private life events
- Chapter 9: A recipe for successful aging: playful work design and other key ingredients
- Chapter 10: Occupational health and safety interventions for older workers: best practice
- Chapter 11: Smart technology use on the work floor: potential benefits of new technologies for aging workers' safety and health
- Chapter 12: Systemic perspectives on action research in meaningful case studies on aging at work
- Chapter 13: Methodological perspectives on examining aging at work
- PART III: Micro Theoretical Perspectives and Meaningful Narratives
- Chapter 14: Narratives of bridge workers: lessons learned in terms of adjustment processes
- Chapter 15: Women in mid-later life, health and work: a narrative of uncertainty
- Chapter 16: Narratives of older transgender sex workers: a study of India
- PART IV: Summarizing.
- Chapter 17 Lessons learned for designing inclusive healthy and safe workplacesAnnet H. de Lange and Trude Furunes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-03-538163-X
- 1-03-533044-X
- 9781035330447
- OCLC:
- 1570554075
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