Symposium

"Precarious and (yet) healthy work?!"

State options for action to protect those affected

those affected

At the symposium, around 90 representatives from job centres, occupational health and safety and companies analysed the opportunities, requirements and obstacles to being and remaining healthy even in precarious working conditions. From different perspectives, they also looked at the often critical transitions between the "worlds" and developed and discussed more comprehensive concepts.

A central theme of the symposium was mental stress, which can result from both long-term unemployment and the work situation and which can have critical consequences for the health of those affected. Another focus was on the conditions in the workplace, because successful integration can only succeed if it takes place in a workplace environment that has a minimum of awareness of this problem and also provides an appropriate working environment.

Prof. Dr. Ronald McQuaid (University of Stirling) and Prof. Dr. Gudrun Faller (Hochschule für Gesundheit Bochum) gave the interested audience a good introduction to the topic in short keynote speeches, which were then followed by representatives from the Hessian Ministry of

. In six workshops, different perspectives were examined and discussed in more detail and the concluding panel discussion brought the results together in an overall view.