AS ISO 25550:2023 identically adopts ISO 25550:2022 which provides requirements and guidelines to achieve an age-inclusive workforce, which has the potential of adding value for organizations, workers, communities, and other stakeholders. This document enables organizations and other stakeholders to develop, implement, maintain, and support an age-inclusive workforce. It provides opportunities for older workers, working internal or external to the organization, to be productive.
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Guiding principles
5 Leadership and age-inclusive organizational culture
5.1 Age-inclusive governance and leadership
5.1.1 General
5.1.2 Requirements
5.1.3 Recommendations:
5.2 Age-inclusive organizational culture
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 Requirements
5.2.3 Recommendations
5.3 Workplace communication
5.3.1 General
5.3.2 Recommendations – internal communications
5.3.3 Recommendations – external communications
5.4 Equal opportunities and preventing ageism
5.4.1 General
5.4.2 Requirements
5.4.3 Recommendations
5.5 Positive image of age
5.5.1 General
5.5.2 Recommendations
5.6 Older worker recognition
5.6.1 General
5.6.2 Recommendations
6 Workforce planning, recruitment/ re-entry and work allocation
6.1 Workforce planning
6.1.1 General
6.1.2 Requirements
6.1.3 Recommendations
6.2 Recruitment and re-entry of older workers
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Requirements
6.2.3 Recommendations
6.3 Work allocation
6.3.1 General
6.3.2 Recommendations
7 Work design
7.1 Worker capability – responsiveness to individuality
7.1.1 General
7.1.2 Recommendations
7.2 Flexible work arrangements
7.2.1 General
7.2.2 Requirements
8 Health and wellbeing
8.1 Health management in the workplace
8.1.1 General
8.1.2 Requirements
8.1.3 Recommendations
8.2 Physical health in the workplace
8.2.1 General
8.2.2 Recommendations
8.3 Mental and social health in the workplace
8.3.1 General
8.3.2 Recommendations
8.4 Dementia in the workplace
8.4.1 General
8.4.2 Recommendations
8.5 Workplace health promotion
8.5.1 General
8.5.2 Requirements
8.5.3 Recommendations:
8.6 Occupational health and safety
8.6.1 General
8.6.2 Requirement
8.7 Risk assessment program
8.7.1 General
8.7.2 Recommendations
8.8 Ergonomic workplace design
8.8.1 General
8.8.2 Requirements
8.8.3 Recommendations
9 Career development
9.1 General
9.2 Continual career planning
9.2.1 General
9.2.2 Recommendations
9.3 Training and development solutions
9.3.1 General
9.3.2 Requirements
9.3.3 Recommendations
9.4 Enabling development steps, job changes and career breaks
9.4.1 General
9.4.2 Recommendations
10 Knowledge management and intergenerational collaboration
10.1 Knowledge management
10.1.1 General
10.1.2 Recommendations
10.2 Intergenerational collaboration
10.2.1 General
10.2.2 Recommendations
11 Digitalization of workplaces and innovation
11.1 Digitalization of workplaces
11.1.1 General
11.1.2 Requirements
11.1.3 Recommendations
11.2 Co-creation and co-design
11.2.1 General
11.2.2 Recommendations
12 Succession planning
12.1 General
12.2 Requirements
12.3 Recommendations
13 Transition to retirement
13.1 Transition planning
13.1.1 General
13.1.2 Recommendations
13.2 Transition to retirement and individualized solutions
13.2.1 General
13.2.2 Requirement
13.2.3 Recommendation
13.3 Coaching for retirement life preparation
13.3.1 General
13.3.2 Recommendations
14 Continuing in the workforce
14.1 General
14.2 Continue working, inclusion and maintaining contact
14.2.1 General
14.2.2 Recommendation
14.3 Individualized working options
14.3.1 General
14.3.2 Recommendations
15 The value of the ageing workforce’s ecosystem to the organization
