Pension reform will reinforce the importance of health at work

Exoskeletons to protect cashiers’ arms or workers’ backs on construction sites, patient lifts to relieve caregivers in nursing homes, desks that go up and down for people with back pain… Tools to prevent wear and tear professional multiply. But they are still too little used in companies. At a time when the pension reform wants to make the French work longer, they will have to work twice as hard to take into account health at work.

One in two French people considers that employers are not sufficiently mobilized on the prevention of professional wear and tear, and only 43% of managers indicate that they have implemented a policy on the subject, underlines the Mutualité française in its annual observatory on health at work, published this Tuesday. “Social inequalities in life expectancy and occupational diseases are not inevitable. To reduce them, improving…