Avancée dans la prévention des « chutes de plain-pied » au travail

Sylvie Leclercq (), Michel Monteau and Xavier Cuny
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Sylvie Leclercq: HT - Département Homme au Travail - INRS ( Vandoeuvre lès Nancy) - Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (Vandoeuvre lès Nancy)
Michel Monteau: HT - Département Homme au Travail - INRS ( Vandoeuvre lès Nancy) - Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (Vandoeuvre lès Nancy)
Xavier Cuny: CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]

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Abstract: Falls on the same level remain frequent and serious occupational accidents. The terminology used to describe these accidents is varied and somewhat imprecise. Moreover it does not integrate the variety of accidents with different names. The advantage of considering an occupational accident category with motion perturbation (MPA) is demonstrated, based on extracts from various occupational accident accounts. A model is then proposed for MPAs that shows that in these specific cases of accidents, the injury often results from a fortuitous association between the victim' perturbed motion energy and a physical element that causes injury due to its properties and subsequently called a "circumstantial hazard". Finally, the reasoning behind the MPA classification is explained. In particular, it appears that prevention that focuses on the immediate causes of the injury is difficult, even impossible, in MPA cases, essentially because of requirements inherent in the work and the constraints on the enterprise to implement this prevention. Prevention implemented at the source of the risk therefore seems to be the only feasible solution. From commonplace accidents, MPAs reveal dysfunctions within the production system.

Keywords: Chute de plain-pied; Perturbation du mouvement; Danger; Accident; EQUILIBRE; MESURE DE PREVENTION; ACCIDENT DE TRAJET; ACCIDENT DU TRAVAIL; CLASSIFICATION; FACTEUR DE RISQUE; FRANCE; MODELISATION; RECIT ACCIDENT; STATISTIQUES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Published in Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé, 2010, Mouvement, 12 (3)

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