[When work organization becomes the source of pathologies].
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The methodology and first results of a research on night-work management, carried out by the PNR 15, are presented. We show that the effects of night-work and the way it is experienced by the workers, varies from one person to another, and mainly depend on the type of activity concerned and on work conditions. With the aim of prevention, we try to define risk-populations.
An ergonomic research performed in 16 plants of various activities shows that 47.2% of the workers are complaining on noise. We prove that the annoyance is not only related to the exposure level in db(A), but also to task performance and essentially mental load.
Some results on occupational health are presented, based on a questionnaire named "Integration of occupational health in the Swiss sanitary system", which was mailed to every industrial societies employing more than 100 persons and unions in Switzerland. The results show differences between societies and unions as well as between the two main linguistic areas and that the largest societies are more in favour of the expansion of occupational health than the smallest.