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Following the expert appraisal work published in 2009 by the French Agency for Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire de l’Environnement et du Travail) on asbestos…

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Repeated and/or prolonged exposure to physical, organisational, psychosocial, and environmental constraints at work can lead to a degradation in health. Various tools make it possible to assess such constraints…

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Today, in France, approximately 11% of salaried workers are exposed to vibration transmitted to the upper limb. Prolonged exposure to high levels of vibration can lead to a certain number of pathologies. To try…

Objective: To relate functional capacities, work strains and upper limb musculoskeletal disorders (ulMSD) to define the content of a work analysis which allows an effective ulMSD prevention strategy.
Methods: A study was conducted in 3 factories…

The validity of nine heat stress indices : Effective Temperature (ET), Effective Temperature star (ET*), Heat Stress Index (HSI), Index of Thermal Stress (ITS), Predicted Mean Vote (PMV), Predicted 4 Hour Sweat Rate (P4SR), Required sweat rate (Sreq), Temp rature…

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Prolonged exposure to whole-body vibration increases the risk of low-back pain problems. In France, 3 million mobile plant operatives who work in the sitting position may be exposed to this type of stress (drivers…

Objective: To give a support to the opinions recorded during the workers' mandatory visits to their occupational physicians (OP) and show that this helps to build prevention strategies.
Method: A short form, recto-verso A4 sheet, questionnaire including…

While working in the heat has decreased in the last thirty years, several recent surveys have shown that heat stress remains a significant complain for almost one every five workers. The most hazardous situations can be characterised by their…