Instrumentos conceptuais e metodológicos na análise de riscos e nos processos de prevenção: a abordagem de Véronique De Keyser

Abstract

We present the conceptual and methodological approach proposed by Véronique De Keyser to managing prevention and analysing professional risks. In this perspective conceptions and practices of prevention should always emerge and be structured by the risk analysis accomplished in context and with the participation of the concerned actors. We have structured the presentation of this approach in three parts. We begin by analysing the evolution of paradigms that support the understanding of risk evaluation and prevention management. Next we operationalise the concepts and the theories that characterise the contextual approach envisaged by the author to research/intervention in this domain. We conclude with the exposition of the most widespread methods in risk evaluation study, emphasising their use as instruments in order to promote transformations in views on conceptions and practices of prevention.

Keywords

• Prevention
• risk analysis methods
• context
• work activity analysis
• instrumental mediation.