NIOSH and Older Workers in the Workplace

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has recently launched its National Center for Productive Aging and Work (Center).

 

The new “virtual center,” will focus on worker safety at all ages, promoting lifelong well-being, and will advance the concept of “productive aging.” The NIOSH news release about the Center indicates that today one in every five American workers is over 65. “In 2020 one in four American workers will be over the age of 55, many of them with no intention to retire anytime soon.”

 

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