text: **Ageing**can have positive consequences on safety and health.106 Depending on the job profile, age 
  might be an advantage if work experience and expertise are of high relevance. 107 The biggest 
  disadvantages are higher rates of physical functional limitations, possibly comorbidities and connected 
  to this a higher rate of health-related absences. There are evident differences between older and 
  younger aged workers regarding length of absences (not frequency) and disabilities, that is, not only 
  recognised serious disabilities but also minor restrictions can be sufficient to stop a physically 
  demanding job.108 Manual workers of higher age run in competition with younger workers and mostly 
  cannot perform physically exhaustive work in the same way as younger workers. From a preventive 
  point of view, age-related limitations should as far as possible be mitigated by workplace adaptation and 
  help tools. 
  
  **The higher accident rates of young workers are visible in the Eurostat ESAW statistics.**In 2019, 
  the standardised incident rate for non-fatal accidents of workers between 25 and 54 was at 2,469 for 
  workers under 25, and at 1,667 for workers between 25 and 54 years, that is, ca. 48% higher.109 