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The aim of this article is to present a methodology for encouraging local stakeholders to cooperate on the prevention of an emerging risk. It concerns the degradation of mountain permafrost, which, with global warming, generates natural hazards (landslides, collapses, torrential lava) that create vulnerability for mountain professionals, public protection authorities and citizens living in the valleys. This methodology involves two steps. Firstly, an individual interview, based on intermediate objects (maps and real-life cases), leads the person into a reflective activity. This step prepares the way for the second step: the democratic workshop, where stakeholders discuss and exchange their needs on a regional level. The construction of this methodology, based on an interdisciplinary approach between ergonomics and geosciences, enables us to better grasp the stakes involved in the risk of permafrost degradation for those working in the field, in relation to their human activity and its evolution. It leads to a better understanding of phenomena in a given area, and to the development of preventive actions and social demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to examine how the organisational work of owner-managers in microenterprises might include prevention features, as part of their operational strategies when regulating customer and production variability. The notion of an owner-manager's organisational work allows us... to investigate the notion of informal prevention, integrated into their work organisation, while considering performance, restaurant cost effectiveness and employee health. The methodology is based on a descriptive qualitative analysis, with an ergonomic perspective. We analysed ten operating strategies implemented by two ownermanagers during work situations encountered at lunchtime in their establishments. Data collection mainly consisted of individual self-confrontations based on videos made during observation phases. The results show that their operating strategies provide a favourable environment for managing work situations that involve a high variability linked to customer demands. However, the owner-managers' health may be harmed by these operational strategies, which expose them to constraints and raise the question of the resources needed for them to be able to protect themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to deepen knowledge about interventions deployed in organization that focuses on the development of individuals, collectives and organizations. This article aims to demonstrate which strategies are used by a practitioner during an intervention in order to make it more effective. To this end, we followed the intervention of an occupational psychologist deploying a preventive approach called ORSOSA (Organization of Care and Health of Caregivers) in a care ward. In order to follow the intervention process longitudinally we used a qualitative approach (dashboard logs, observations, interviews). The analysis of our data identifies three main strategies used by the practitioner at specific times during the intervention to: legitimize the relevance of the approach, adapt to the care service context and evaluate the results of the intervention. For each of these strategies, the objectives and modus operandi were described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For several years ergonomists have been claiming that the participatory approach - especially at the coalface in organizational and spatial design projects - is vital in companies. In recent years constructive approaches have been developed by researchers and practitioners in ergonomics (Falzon, 2013). The workers' self-fulfillment is of increasing concern within companies. New intervention methods such as work debate spaces (Detchessahar, 2013; Rocha, Mollo, & Daniellou, 2015) are used as supports to foster workers' capacities and competencies (Sen, 1993) within companies. Based on a structured feed-back on an ergonomic intervention designed to improve learning from experience with a road tunnel operator, the aim of this article is to highlight the methods and conditions for developing individual and collective capacities within the organization. It will be seen that the ergonomic project approach based on a shared diagnosis and a participative approach to design involving the workers is not enough to support the longterm development of the workers' competencies. The article demonstrates how "work debate spaces" contribute to the development of individual and organizational learning. In conclusion this article will discuss the minimal conditions for their implementation in relation to the necessary evolutions for ergonomic intervention methods and competencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An abstract on a multidisciplinary research project involving ergonomics and clinical activity for the prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders (WRMSD) is presented.