Under the Constraints of Societal Changes,Media,Ethics and a More Top-Down Approach: What Does Prevention Research Have to Offer the Working Environment?

Abstract

The rapid change in the world of work requires permanent revision of research strategies in the field of occupational risk prevention. These must take the following factors into account:

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technological development and development of linked organisations,

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the reinforcement of the relations between individuals and their “bodies”,

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the shift from the causal to the probable not to say the possible with regard to increasingly multifactorial occupational risks,

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exploration of the effects of standard deviations (and not only statistical averages) on the harmful consequences of work,

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links between work and the environment.