In this innovation area, too, TNO wants to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate scientifically substantiated interventions (solutions) for several target groups and situations.
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For instance, to ensure that people can work longer and stay healthy, also in
stressful professions (physical and mental). And that people with a health restriction want to and can continue to work.
TNO also focuses on
boosting the employment of inactive people at the low end of the labour market. We also investigate how we can boost the knowledge and production level of people at the low end of the labour market that may already be in paid
employment but often have a low level of education and no formal basic qualification. Furthermore, TNO is geared to the safety of innovative substances and technologies (including nanotechnology) in the work environment.
TNO will develop methods to estimate quickly and early the risks of ‘lowdata’ substances, build databases with hazard and exposure information on nanoparticles, predictive models for nanoparticles and models for dealing quantitatively and transparently with uncertainties in the evaluation of risk problems. In this way TNO will contribute to implementing an accepted way of dealing with health risks in the workplace such that these form no bottleneck for technological innovation.
Finally, TNO focuses on boosting labour productivity, with an emphasis on the public sector, specifically care where we will develop care concepts for the chronically ill. Main focal point: to strengthen the self-management of the patient, an approach that demands care chains to be organised differently and e-health concepts to be developed. TNO will contribute in a consortium with technology suppliers and care institutions to developing a platform for the national rollout of such services.
