Conception and evaluation of an age-differentiated task analysis and screening method

摘要

In the light of the proceeding demographic change in Europe, companies have to face the challenge to cope with the changes of the working environment with a continuously aging workforce. Hence, the design of age-based work systems and processes becomes an important factor of German companies. Having this in mind, a task analysis and screening procedure (ATS) was developed to consider age-related changes directly by planning and to avoid an overstraining in older people. With the conception and evaluation of ATS, a first basic approach could be generated to identify age-critical fields of activity in the product development and production process. Due to the comparison of work requirements and age-related abilities, it is possible to illustrate age-related spheres of activity and to infer design recommendations in order to design work systems in a corrective and conceptive way.