Workshop Overview

Demands to prolong working life and increase productivity are under discussion in Australian policy; hence designing for an ageing workforce is a critical workplace issue.

Work ability, which is a balance between work demands and personal resources, has underpinned the framework for the Finnish Institute of Occupation Health Services for close to three decades.  Maintaining and improving work ability has been used as a way of solving the problems associated with an ageing workforce.

This workshop will outline how the Work Ability Index (WAI) is being applied in Australian workplaces to promote productivity in an ageing workforce and maintain quality of working life.  The WAI provides a basis for measuring the changes individuals undergo in their life course with age, as well as changes in work demands.  Participants will gain an understanding of the complexity of longer working lives, the application of work ability to productive ageing and qualify of work life, how to design appropriate interventions to maintain work ability and evaluate the efficacy of interventions at the work organisational, work environment and indivual worker level.

Please refer to the attached flyer for further information about the presenters.  The registration form is also attached.

Coffee and registration from 9.00 am.  Session commences at 9.30 am.