2023-11-27 09:30:02
45% of “NER” (neither employed nor retired) aged 55 to 61 are there for reasons of health or disability; 63% report having a chronic or lasting illness or health problem. From age 62, this rate decreases thanks to retirement.
These INSEE figures partly explain why, given the aging of the active population, “the share of people excluded from work at the end of their career continues to increase (Castelain, 2023) »as ergonomist Catherine Delgoulet writes.
However, this development is not inevitable. This is what the researcher demonstrates in an analysis of the relationships between health and work carried out as part of the scientific mediation project “What do we know about work? ” of Interdisciplinary laboratory for public policy evaluation (Liepp), broadcast in collaboration with Presses de Sciences Po on the Employment channel of the Lemonde.fr site.
After a brief history of arduous work and its recognition in labor law, Catherine Delgoulet points out in her text the professions and employment situations which are not taken into account by public health policies which focus on to reduce or compensate for the risks of arduous work.
Caring for people over time
Its aim is to radically change approach to address health at work beyond arduousness by building sustainability, step by step, throughout the professional career. “Apprehending health-work relations, and thereby questions of prevention, through the unique prism of arduousness is, in a certain way, considering that work is inevitably painful, even harmful to health”she explains.
It is placed in a perspective where the 45% of “neither employed nor retired” for reasons of health would not be expected to be more and more numerous due to demographic aging. It would no longer be a question of repairing, compensating or replacing through robotization or outsourcing the human weaknesses that arise with age, but of questioning working conditions throughout life and the transmission of knowledge. to take care of things and people over time. In other words, think about work so that it is sustainable in all situations.
To do this, transmission becomes a lever for prevention: “Know-how drawing on the experiences of each person according to registers of knowledge articulating technique, professional values or even health and safety issues for oneself, others, the technical system or the environment”justifies the ergonomist.
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