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This contribution offers elements for reflection on the work of designing prescriptions in the automotive industry, within the framework of the implementation of Lean. She is part of a symposium on occupational health in the industrial design activity composed of interventions carried out in the same automotive company. The questions raised by this completed study remain topical and take place in this symposium for historical reasons. Indeed, this research was carried out at the beginning of the implementation of Lean in the company in question and shows in particular for the design activity in work organization, a shift of tasks between method agents and team leaders. The contribution will seek to illustrate the links of this shift with the issue of health at work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This communication proposes an analysis of the work of nuclear safety regulation in the case of the risk of flooding. The risk of flooding has been the subject of particular attention since the 1970s, the starting point for the construction of the nuclear power plant now in operation and has a strong "eventful" history (flooding of the French nuclear power plant at Blayais in 1999 and the Fukushima accident in 2011). Through the study of the flood risk, we will show that nuclear safety regulation is the product of "regulatory work": this corresponds to the way in which experts, the safety authority and operators interact to draw up and implement regulations, which we call a "regulatory instrument". In this paper, we will characterize and analyze this regulatory work during the design of two safety rules, in the 1970-80s and in the 2000-2010 period, in order to draw some conclusions on the evolution of the French regulatory system as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is done as part of an ergonomics' PhD and aims at improving the safety culture of an offshore oil drilling station, by focusing the ergonomical analysis on the object of the work of fiscalization of the operations. The safety culture approach and the notion of object of work have a common dialectic nature between mental content and collective practice. The necessary compromises between the different dimensions of the performance are also a common point. The ergonomical intervention we propose aims at valorizing the work's point of view also concerning his product. This way, our approach gives to the ergonomist more grip on the sense and the performance of the work, beyond the direct demand of the company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Promoted by the law on vocational training, the training action in work situation (Action de Formation en Situation de Travail - AFEST) becomes a training modality eligible for funding and integrates the offer of vocational training schemes. By its object, learning in and through work, it presents an opportunity to discuss the boundaries between work and training. Thus, it questions French-language ergonomics on its contributions in the field of training: the analysis of work as a tool and a means of learning, the work situation as a learning space, intervention as a support approach to the design of work situations... Thus, our concern is to see to what extent work can be considered as a place of learning and training, and under what conditions? Beyond learning in and through work, AFEST questions ergonomists on the deployment of training systems and particularly on issues of evaluation and certification. In the same way, it is a question of knowing how the ergonomist can be legitimate in the field of training. In this context, will it be a question of training action or action to transform a work situation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work presented here is part of a doctoral thesis in ergonomics and presents the results of the literature review carried out during the first year. The «clinique de l'usage» (Bobillier-Chaumon & Clot, 2016) shares the idea that technology is not just a simple tool at the service of a task but an operator's partner in his activity. Technology should allows the operator to develop his capacities for actions by improving the efficiency and the meaning in his activity. The design of an enabling environment (Falzon, 2005) adapted to industry 4.0 requires works that allow the design, the simulation and the evaluation of these Human-Machine interactions. The objective of our work is to think about the design of an enabling Human-Technologie situation in the context of industry 4.0. Our results show that the scientific literature on the human factor subject in industry 4.0 is very scattered, so there is a real need to capitalize these knowledges which have difficulties to communicate with each other. We were able to work on the design of a grid for evaluating the performance of Human-Technology interaction. In this general grid, we are particularly attentive to the definition of an enabling situation, which highlights the question of the deployment of the operator's activity. Our, mainly theoretical, contribution therefore focuses on the redefinition of an enabling situation in the industry 4.0 context and the creation of this evaluation grid. This work will allow us, at a later date, to confront this vision to concrete situations with helps of monographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The challenge of this communication is to better understand the design process that a farmer engages in when developing more agroecological practices on his/her farm. To do so, we rely on the notion of narrative, and propose to speak of "design narrative". This paper focuses on a case study: a cattle farmer, in transition to a grassland system, low-input and self-sufficient. The narration of design narratives by farmer is allowed by the implementation of the Chronicle of Change method (Chizallet, 2019). These narratives allow him to make his experience explicit and are indicative of his major concerns, which are varied in nature and interdependent. In addition, design narratives highlight design processes that focused on these concerns and allow the farmer to move through the time of the design process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This communication presents a research-action methodology based on the design of a job rotation system built with the participation of all workers in the slaughter sector in a slaughterhouse of cattle in the western part of the stat, São Paulo in Brazil. The company appealed to UNESP (State University of São Paulo) with the initial request to consider the introduction of the job rotation in the slaughter sector. In a context where participatory approaches often use representative working groups, a more democratic methodology was used with 100% of the workers in the sector in question to give voice to operators who are not often used to the opportunity to use it at work. The objective is to discuss the benefits and limitations and learn from them for organizational design projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wanting to improve work realization conditions can lead, especially in the framework of a subcontracting relationship, companies to question determinants that are not part of their scope of self action, but more on the side of their ordor givers. The framework of contract and evaluation's modalities of service need to be renegotiate. But on what basis? Visibility of work and value produced appear as a strategic lever to support subcontracting companies to have some « political courage » in a competitive environment for pushing their customers to evolve their own business model. Overall, using activity as development lever for any organization, without diversion, questions professional practice of ergonomist to recognize, to support this activity, in a more strategic, political or even "territorial" view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two ergonomic interventions led us to reflect on the terms "development for organizations". These interventions aimed at the transformation of the human organization and the economic model of work design, based on the activity revealed and debated during the intervention, and the recognition of the value actually produced by the work real in articulation with the strategic / political issues of the company / community. In this, the intended transformation supports the challenge of overall performance development. This transformation, neither known in advance nor guaranteed, but built with the actors during the analysis of the activity and during the intervention, was made around the dynamics of new approach of management, in particular through a participatory approach of the different hierarchical levels and through the experimentation of the concept of co-responsibility between actors of the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This communication deals with the relationship between activity and work organization in the context of support of primary "psychosocial risk" prevention in a public institution. The search for psychosocial risk factors was based on an analysis of what is perceived and experienced by officers. The results obtained have been used as content for traditional psychosocial risk prevention tools to mobilize management, develop and implement action in the institution. This work allows us to come back to theoretical elements concerning the activity where the sense of organization in action and structuring of the organization occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The described ergonomic intervention took place in an assembly plant of small domestic appliances. As part of an ergonomics master's degree, we started from the initial request for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders to question ourselves about the participatory nature of ergonomic interventions. The organization wished to increase the operator's responsibility. Therefore, which intervention method allows for a real stakeholder's participation? In an attempt to answer this question, we created an observation group with the operators. The goal of this group was to allow the operators to direct the intervention right from the beginning of the observations. The method used allowed the observation group to highlight what affects their initiatives and contributes to the deterioration but also to the preservation of their health. However, a real participation within the decision process was not reach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the symposium (coordinated by Valérie Saint-Dizier and Alain Garrigou) and in the context of chemical risk prevention in the workplace, we propose a research-intervention model to conduct a prevention project. It is a question to show how the development of intermediate objects (IO) of prevention, constituted in resources, allow mutual learning between actors of different hierarchical and disciplinary levels. The objectives of this contribution are twofold: - To make visible an IO development methodology - Open on the conduct of prevention projects in reference to the work on the conduct of design projects. In this context, illustrations from research interventions allow to question and describe the role of these IOs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collective dynamics appear in many works and public policies as one of the preferred means of supporting agroecological transitions of the agricultural community. In our ongoing work, we will seek to: (i) understand the resources that support a professional transition of farmers and their performative effect on a more sustainable systems (ii) analyse the role of the collective and the experiences' sharing between peers in these processes (iii) support collectives in these transformations from a research-action perspective. We will be particularly interested in how the sharing of experiences in farmer's groups engages farmers in a dual process: one of redesigning their work system, the other of professional development. It provided insights on how the design process of a farmer is mediated by peers and identified some development signs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a growing need for a reflection on the evaluation methods of complex ergonomic intervention (CEI). The proposed contribution aims to generate discussions about a three phases evaluation protocol for the integrated manual handling prevention strategy (IMHS) which integrates the implementation process evaluation and effects to the analysis of costs and benefits. The studied intervention is an innovative approach to musculo-skeletal disorders prevention at work in sectors with manual handling. We propose an original evaluation protocol which includes an analysis of the intervention's narrative to identify key moments, causal relations and mechanisms that contribute, or not, to the success of the implementation. It also aims to identify intermediate effects that are relevant to the evaluation of the IMHS and which are indicators of potential effects on employees' health. This contribution will feed the reflection about the evolution of CEI evaluation protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This communication relies on two different intervention researches conducted in the same high reliability organization of the nuclear industry. These two researches are both enabling ergonomic interventions and care about transversal collaborative work that is performed by actors with different trades or different functions. In these researches, the transversal collaborative work implies specificities and different forms. In order to foster its development, two different devices were experimented: a reflexive training device and transversal organising work device. The results of these experimentations bring to light these devices foster the development of collaborative skills. However, the durability of these devices can be limited, it questions subsidiarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Training managers to and by analysis and discussion of work is a major issue for organizations, to take up the challenges of today and tomorrow. Indeed, it represents a major lever for placing real work at the heart of management and organization. We analyzed an innovative contribution in this area, the university diploma in alternative management proposed by Univ. of Picardie (France). Focusing on manager training as a research topic, we described pedagogical methods and proposed an early picture of ensued effects based on the analysis of training and support situations. It provides researchers with further insight into how manager training can contribute to real work revalorization, by considering: 1/focusing on real work issues; 2/generating a change in representations, and not only bringing tools and techniques; and 3/ promoting the transfer of knowledge and skills on the job. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The context of outsourcing can weaken the team collective resources and can reconfigure them. Our aims are (1) to identify how in the context of outsourcing a supervisor can promote collective regulations in the boxes operators' activity (2) to determine whether he promotes or implements himself regulations within employees (operators and/or supervisors) of the client company. Two case studies are being conducted in the area of meat cutting. They cover an analysis of the activity of two contractors supervisors, and involve observations and self-confrontation. The results describe two contrasting situations in the way of these supervisors support or not team collective regulations, depending on the context. Collective regulations between contractors supervisors and supervisors of the client company, which can be helpful in achieving health and performance of subcontractors, are updated. They point to research perspectives on collective peers including contractors and client company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) prevention, the line management is described as an actor target in particular because of his role in the organization of the work of the operators. In a context of development of the internal subcontracting, the place that the questions of health in the work can set in the activity of the close supervision subcontractor is questioned. This type of organization could modify others "classic" postures of the close supervision such as " intermediate between the upstream and the downstream ", "decision-maker" and thus towards arguments in favor of the absence of consideration of health issues. Nevertheless, the first data collected with a close supervisor contractor show close articulation between the performance and the health. It would pass by the implication of the close supervisor for the emergence of a collective labor and by his personal implication in the local production activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]