With the Fornero reform, and the consequent lengthening (estimated on average around 7-8 years) of the working life of employees, Italian companies find themselves having to face a new problem, the aging of the workforce, with all the consequent risks, such as a possible lower efficiency of the workers and the danger, always lurking, of further complications.
And it is for this reason that, especially in the North-East, in the industrial triangle, the first countermeasures to adopt are beginning to be studied. As reported by the Corriere della Sera, in fact, the Industrial Union of Treviso, to take advantage, analyzed an experiment conducted by BMW, which has artificially aged a department, concentrating a high percentage of workers over 50. The conclusion reached is that, in cases of this kind, much greater attention must be paid to everything concerning ergonomics on the place of work, especially in the aspects relating to posture and distribution of fatigue, and that, even if older workers can lose the rhythm of the assembly lines, it is necessary to know how to enhance the training capacity of workers over 50, with their baggage of organizational culture and rules.
As the director of the Treviso industrial union, Giuseppe Milan, said, this is the way to go "experimenting with good practices and then generalizing them before the change in demography becomes an emergency". The road is traced.
