ASSE offers tips on how to increase work safety for older workers
Senior workers have highest fatality rates
With recent statistics showing workers in the 65 and older age group having the highest number of on-the-job deaths in the U.S. in 2010, and, with older workers (defined as those aged 55+ years) being the nation’s fastest growing segment of the working population, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) urges employers to design workplaces with positive policies and programs to optimize the safety and health of older workers.
ASSE President Richard A. Pollock, CSP, called the statistics “alarming.”