Taking into account the territory in occupational risks prevention. The case of work activity in waste sorting centers

Prendre en compte le territoire dans la prévention des risques professionnels. Le cas du travail de tri des emballages ménagers

Leïla Boudra (), Pascal Beguin (), Bertrand Delecroix and Valérie Pueyo ()
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Leïla Boudra: PARAGRAPHE - Laboratoire Paragraphe - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UCP - Université de Cergy Pontoise - Université Paris-Seine, UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Pascal Beguin: EVS - Environnement, Ville, Société - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - Mines Saint-Étienne MSE - École des Mines de Saint-Étienne - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon - Université de Lyon - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - ENSAL - École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - ALLHiS - Approches Littéraires, Linguistiques et Historiques des Sources - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne, UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2
Bertrand Delecroix: INRS ( Vandoeuvre lès Nancy) - Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (Vandoeuvre lès Nancy)
Valérie Pueyo: EVS - Environnement, Ville, Société - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - Mines Saint-Étienne MSE - École des Mines de Saint-Étienne - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon - Université de Lyon - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - ENSAL - École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - ALLHiS - Approches Littéraires, Linguistiques et Historiques des Sources - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne, UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2

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Abstract: Environmental sustainability issues lead to the emergence of new economic sectors ("green business"), representing original scopes for occupational risks prevention, in order to contribute simultaneously to the three pillars of sustainable development (economic, environmental and social). In this context, we carried out a research on occupational risks prevention in five waste sorting centers, that lead to question the links between territory, work and prevention. Indeed, our results show that the territory is a structural element of sorting work because waste is a territorialized object. Important issues are then asked about the coherence between the waste management into the territory and working conditions into the waste sorting center, and the possibility to maintain such a coherence over time. Particularly, a national evolution of sorting instructions for plastic packaging modified the articulation between the five waste sorting centers studied and their territories, including effects on occupational health and effects on the system efficiency. On this basis, two orientations for prevention are identified and discussed in this article. The first one questions the design of the sorting centers in terms of capacity to absorb the (inevitable) changes in the territory of the sorting center. The second one questions the perimeter of collective and social dynamics for prevention: in the waste sorting sector, prevention must be extended beyond the company's boundaries to reach the territorial scale. In conclusion, we discuss two aspects: the notion of territory and its definition in an actor-oriented perspective and considering the territorial dimension for occupational risks prevention.

Keywords: Recyclage; Travail; Territoire; Prévention; Economie verte (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Le travail humain, 2019, 82 (2), pp.99-128. ⟨10.3917/th.822.0099⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/th.822.0099

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