Prévenir les TMS

Abstract

The outburst of musculoskeletal disorders in the early 1990’s obliged ergonomics to rethink the way that health concerns and workplace organisation relate with each other. This is not to say that a purely biomechanical approach has become obsolete, however, efficient prevention strategies now require that management become the focal point in an ergonomic intervention, and not just one element of the global context. Ergonomic experience, particularly that which is oriented toward musculoskeletal disorder prevention, has progressively shown the pertinence of linking Tayloristic style management, still predominant in certain organisations, with pathological-based models for musculoskeletal problems in the workplace. Therefore one of the leading stakes in current ergonomics is to be able to put into action the activity model. This model permits us to connect prevention oriented models with models of economic and subjective work valorization. A preliminary step however, is for ergonomics to revalue it’s own viewpoint of what it considers as activity.

Keywords

• musculoskeletal disorders
• activity
• productivity (efficiency) performancee