L. whereas research has shown that mental health problems account for large-scale productivity loss, absenteeism and days off work; whereas it is therefore vital for all stakeholders to address both the causes and the symptoms of poor mental health in order to have a resilient and productive workforce that can manage a work-life balance; whereas a gender perspective on mental health at work is required, in part due to prevailing gender inequalities, and organisational practices that promote them, and to the life roles that working women may need to balance;

It is true that accounts are very important: it is very important to know what the costs are, but we also need to know the benefits, the cost of preventing accidents at work, but also the costs of failure to prevent accidents at work.

on-board programmes for the prevention of occupational accidents, injuries and diseases and for continuous improvement in occupational safety and health protection, involving seafarers’ representatives and all other persons concerned in their implementation, taking account of preventive measures, including engineering and design control, substitution of processes and procedures for collective and individual tasks, and the use of personal protective equipment; and

Individuals then have a choice to stop work and take their pensions, or to continue working and either take their pension or defer it until they choose to stop working.

Promote and increase flexibility combined with employment security and reduce labour market segmentation, and promote good industrial relations on the basis of independent and representative trade unions and improved information and consultation of workers through: the adaptation and streamlining of employment legislation, reviewing where necessary the level of flexibility and security provided by permanent and non-permanent contracts; better anticipation and positive management of change, including economic restructuring, notably changes linked to trade opening, so as to minimise their social costs and facilitate adaptation to new realities ; support for transitions in occupational status, including ...[+++]training, self-employment, business creation and geographic mobility; the promotion and dissemination of innovative and adaptable forms of work organisation; effective measures to reduce workplace accidents by means of improved prevention of workplace risks, especially through agreements at European level , and by diversity of contractual arrangements together with flexible working hours , with a view to improving quality of employment, productivity at work and the reconciliation of family life and work , adaptation to new technologies in the workplace, determined action to transform unauthorised work into regular employment and combat the grey economy (Integrated guideline No 20).

Many women of pensionable age have an inadequate pension or none at all, whether because they have never worked, have stopped working, have been obliged to stop working, or were employed part-time.