Healthy, safe and productive work
Netherlands
2011 - 2014
Ca. 9 million Euro
TNO Funding Programme (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture & Innovation, directed by Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment)
To hold on to the current level of prosperity and welfare, governments, work organisations and social partners face key challenges in the coming decades, The size of the working population in The Netherlands is expected to have fallen by 2040 from 10 to 9 million, while the ‘ grey pressure’ will have doubled from 23 to 47%. The productivity growth in The Netherlands has lagged behind the European Union and OECD average since 2000. Globalisation is putting the competitive strength of Dutch industry under pressure.
This funding program comprises four so called propositions:
Healthy, vital and safe work:
If the working population has to remain productive and healthy for an additional two years, their vitality has to be boosted, losses due to ill health must be reduced and more opportunities created for the handicapped to work in modified working conditions. TNO focuses on developing effective interventions and solutions, and preparing these for roll out.
Dealing responsibly with innovative substances and technologies:
Industry must be able to innovate at an increasingly rapid speed. TNO wants to enable working conditions to be optimally and safely modified by ensuring timely risk evaluations and safe working processes, for instance in dealing with nanotechnology and green sustainable chemistry.
Employability and social cohesion:
Working together fosters social cohesion. The aim is to reduce by 20% those people not engaged in work, a considerable portion through greater participation among the lower educated. TNO is developing a method that offers work and development for the lower end of the labour market
Sustainable labour productivity:
Our level of prosperity depends on a sustainable higher labour productivity. TNO wants to help labour productivity to grow, for example in the prevention and care sector by enabling human potential to be better utilised through innovative forms of organisation, new technology and sustainable workplaces.
Work & Productivity
In this funding program, developed and adapted in close collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, TNO wants to ensure that people can work longer and stay healthy, also in stressful professions (physical and mental)
Concrete defined outcomes for the long term (2020) are:
The healthy and productive life years of the (potential) working population in The Netherlands will increase with two years
The burden of disease related to dangerous substances will decrease with 5-10%
The present amount of 275 Dutch SME’s active with innovative nano technologies will have doubled
Work participation of the lower educated will increase with 5%
A decrease of 20% (appr. 200,000) of the amount of persons not active in employment (now dependent on unemployed, welfare or disablement benefits)
An increase of productivity growth from 0,8 to 1,6%
The innovative power of work organisations will increase with 10%
Applied research in collaboration with stakeholders (practitioners & professionals, local organisations, social partners, enterprises and others)
Movement Sciences, Ergonomics, Occupational Health and Safety, Econometrics, Sociology. Labour market and employment expertise
Annually updated proposal; review and approval by Internal TNO Review Board and Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.
Monitoring and cohort studies, good practices exchange
TNO
Innovation Area Healthy, safe and productive work
Paulien
Bongers
Dr.
Director Innovation Area “Healthy, safe and productive work”
PO Box 718, 2130 AS Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
+31(0)88866 53 25
+31(0)23 554 9394
paulien.bongers@tno.nl
www.tno.nl
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