La prévention durable des risques professionnels au prisme du travail des préventeurs

This article aims to contribute to reflections on what makes occupational risk prevention sustainable, based on the analysis of the work of prevention advisors. It is rooted in a research-intervention commissioned by the Caisse Centrale de la Mutualité Sociale Agricole (MSA), as part of its 2021-2025 Occupational Health and Safety Plan. Firstly, the theoretical framework articulates three fields of the ergonomics literature: 1) the literature on sustainable prevention of MSDs, 2) the literature on the notions of sustainable work and decent work, and 3) the literature on the concept of sustainable development; together, this enables to identify an original reading grid to characterize sustainable prevention. Secondly, based on a retrospective analysis of six service relationships conducted by prevention advisors from four MSA with affiliated companies, we show that the quality of the service relationship is a condition for the sustainability of prevention. The prevention advisors aim to build unique and lasting relationships with their members. These relationships are a means of co-constructing actions that promote collective and primary prevention. Each prevention action is thus thought of as a part in a potential larger game that may (or may not) be actualized. These results are discussed along four axes in the light of the three fields of literature mentioned.