The Aging Workforce Maintaining the Safety and Health of a Diverse Workforce

摘要

As workers born between 1946 and 1964,the large 'baby boomer' generation,age so too does our workforce while the labor pool shrinks.Currently,workplace injury rates for older workers are the lowest of any age group,but their fatality rate is the highest.To accommodate the aging workforce and to work to reduce fatality rates,businesses should design a safe workplace for this aging,but valuable,workforce or be faced with a negative economic impact.