Fabienne Goutille

University of Bordeaux · College of Health Sciences

Background: The number of seasonal workers in the agricultural sector in France is increasing and their working conditions are difficult and disgraceful. While they have been shown in various studies to be subject to processes that result in them being unable to act on occupational health, some of them, mobilized online, have formed a collective w...

Agriculture is a sector particularly affected by the risk of pesticide exposure. The scientific literature associates agricultural pesticides with numerous effects on farmers' health (cancer, lymphoma, anxiety disorders). A number of studies have shown that it is necessary to examine the question of ‘real exposure’ in greater depth, in particular t...

What does the notion of exposure mean when applied in the humanities and social sciences, and what methodologies are used to approach it? How do these perspectives provide complementary insights to the health sciences, which have historically engaged with this concept? Drawing on a literature review and case studies from diverse cultural contexts,...

Este artículo explora las tensiones sistémicas en los sectores agrícola y pesquero, derivadas de decisiones históricas e influidas por diversos agentes. Los análisis revelan limitaciones que están cambiando las finalidades del trabajo, llevando a quienes trabajan en la tierra y en el mara diversificar sus actividades para mantener la rentabilidad a...

Cette contribution propose le développement d’une approche de « prévention construite » comme alternative aux modèles dominants de la sécurité à l’œuvre en milieu agricole. Ce travail s’appuie sur les cadres théoriques de la sécurité en psychologie et en ergonomie (sécurité industrielle, sécurité des patients et résilience), et notamment de la sécu...

In the processes of designing and introducing precision technologies in agriculture, there is a disproportion between the expected productivity issues and the attention paid to their uses and to the effects on the health of farmers. It is this dynamic that ergonomics tries to restore by analyzing work activity. In this article, we mobilize ergonomi...

The work described in this article explores the relationships between activity, the exposure to pesticides, and territory, drawing on the field of action in ergonomics for preventive measures. The phytosanitary treatment activity (crop protection using phytopharmaceutical products) was initially studied with the objective of documenting the exposur...

Cette contribution porte sur l’analyse de situations d’exposition aux pesticides à partir de trois études de cas en agriculture (Garrigou et al., 2011; Albert et al., 2021; Fredj, 2021). Elle s’appuie sur les cadres théoriques de la sécurité (sécurité industrielle, ou encore de la psychologie et de l’ergonomie) afin d’identifier des conditions du d...

Ce travail s’intègre dans le symposium “ergotoxicologie en action” et propose une première tentative de compréhension du processus d’élaboration méthodologique du projet PREVMAC. Ce projet, au départ mené par un doctorant en santé publique, prend la suite d’une étude d’expologie mettant en évidence une contamination interne des soignants. Cette con...

Cette thèse porte sur les contributions possibles de l’ergonomie à la prévention du risque pesticides en milieu viticole. Elle montre comment il peut être possible, par une approche à la fois constructive et développementale, d’accompagner les utilisateurs de produits phytopharmaceutiques à identifier puis à transformer par et pour eux-mêmes les si...

The work described in this article explores the relationships between activity, the exposure to pesticides, and territory, drawing on the field of action in ergonomics for preventive measures. The phytosanitary treatment activity (crop protection using phytopharmaceutical products) was initially studied with the objective of documenting the exposur...

Pesticide risk is a growing concern that raises environmental, health and economic issues. The regulations and prevention measures that aim to reduce this risk are based on a top-down prevention logic by imposing good practices to be followed by farmers. The analysis of the activity of users of phytopharmaceutical products reveals situations of pes...

In March 2020, Safety Science published the article “Critical review of the role of PPE in the prevention of risks related to agricultural pesticide use” by an international group of researchers working for public research organisations. An expert group from an association representing the interests of the agricultural pesticide industry at Europea...

The constraints faced by women and men at work deserve to be apprehended for the development of more effective prevention solutions regarding chemical exposure and occupational cancer. So far, the constraints, as so as the resources mobilize by the people at work to preserve productive and safety activity, are not included to the design of the prev...

Personal protection equipment (PPE) holds a privileged position in safety interventions in many countries, despite the fact that they should only be used as a last resort. This is even more paradoxical because many concerns have arisen as to their actual effectiveness under working conditions and their ability to provide the protection attributed t...

Personal protection equipment (PPE) holds a privileged position in safety interventions in many countries, despite the fact that they should only be used as a last resort. This is even more paradoxical because many concerns have arisen as to their actual effectiveness under working conditions and their ability to provide the protection attributed t...

L’ergotoxicologie a constitué depuis une quinzaine d’années un corpus conceptuel et méthodologique (Garrigou, 2011 ; Mohammed-Brahim & Garrigou, 2009) afin de contribuer à la prévention des expositions des travailleurs aux produits chimiques. Faisant suite au texte de Mohammed-Brahim et Garrigou (2009) publié dans cette revue, cet article présente...

Several practices have emerged to reduce the limitations of prevailing paradigms of chemical risk prevention. This document presents feedback relating to field studies in industry involving the use of chemicals. The interventions are based on a proactive approach by the company’s stakeholders, allocating resources for the prevention development. Th...

The question of the effectiveness of the risk prevention measures related to the use of CMR chemicals represents high challenges in terms of the health of the workers exposed to them. In most cases, prevention measures are limited to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), although the regulation favours collective protective equipment (CPE...

L'objectif général de ce symposium est de présenter un projet qui a cherché à caractériser le processus de la construction sociale de la prévention du risque CMR en entreprise. Il s'est agi d'identifier les acteurs qui y sont partie prenante, de même que les connaissances, les représentations (portant sur les produits, les process, les effets sur l...