Modelling gait processes as a combination of sensory-motor and cognitive controls in an attempt to describe accidents on the level in occupational situations

Alexandrine Sicre, Sylvie Leclercq (), Clarisse Gaudez, Gabriel M. Gauthier, Jean-Louis Vercher () and Christophe Bourdin ()
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Alexandrine Sicre: ISM - Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sylvie Leclercq: HT - Département Homme au Travail - INRS ( Vandoeuvre lès Nancy) - Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (Vandoeuvre lès Nancy)
Clarisse Gaudez: HT - Département Homme au Travail - INRS ( Vandoeuvre lès Nancy) - Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (Vandoeuvre lès Nancy)
Gabriel M. Gauthier: ISM - Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Louis Vercher: ISM - Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christophe Bourdin: ISM - Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In occupational situations, accidents referred to as accidents on the level (AoLs) occur most of the time when locomotion control fails. This control is determined by the interactions between the operator and the environment, the task and the used tools. Hence, AoLs prevention requires developing ways to optimise these interactions. More fundamentally, AoLs prevention requires understanding locomotion control in situations where this control is at sake, that is in situations involving one or more AoLs factors. The purpose of this article is to propose a comprehensive model for the control of locomotion in occupational environments. This model featuring the operator, the task and the working space should be an appropriate tool to understand AoLs in the scope of their prevention. Firstly, we describe what occupational AoLs are. In a second part, we present a review of the theoretical and experimental knowledge related to the locomotion system through the various means developed by the Central Nervous System to cope with perturbations of the environment and/or particular constraints from the task. Finally, we propose a simplified systemic model presenting the various levels of control (sensory-motor to cognitive levels) describing locomotion in occupational situations, and we suggest experiments likely to produce the appropriate data to construct the final comprehensive model.

Keywords: Accident on the level; Prevention; Gait adaptation; Strategic control; Adaptive control; Cognitive level; Sensory-motor level; CHUTE DE PLAIN-PIED; MODELISATION; ACCIDENT DU TRAVAIL; APPAREIL LOCOMOTEUR; COGNITION; FACTEUR DE RISQUE; GLISSADE; MOTRICITE; SYSTEME NERVEUX; SYSTEME NERVEUX CENTRAL; CHUTE DE PLAIN-PIED; MODELISATION; ACCIDENT DU TRAVAIL; APPAREIL LOCOMOTEUR; COGNITION; FACTEUR DE RISQUE; GLISSADE; MOTRICITE; SYSTEME NERVEUX; SYSTEME NERVEUX CENTRAL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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Published in Industrial Health, 2008, 46 (1), pp.3 - 14. ⟨10.2486/indhealth.46.3⟩

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