A lot of resources are often spent on preventing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), reintegrating absent or suffering employees, improving poorly ergonomic equipment and risk analyses. But through all these actions, the conclusion is unanimous: we ALWAYS act too late. We create the risk, but it takes them a few years to come to the surface... and then we try to make up for lost time. 

In doing so, we realize that the room for maneuver is limited, that the costs related to collective or individual ergonomic improvements are significant, and that projects follow one another without interruption. This is because we did not take the time to analyze the organizational characteristics that are common to all these shortcomings: the transverse determinants of health in the workplace.  

Thanks to powerful strategic tools developed with the academic community in Switzerland, we help managers, HR experts and OHS specialists to understand these determinants, to define key performance indicators (KPIs) enabling them to define concrete objectives, and to define action plans to achieve them. 

MSD surveys monitor the physical health of employees year after year: they aim to understand who is in pain where, how much, and to what extent the pain prevents them from functioning in their daily lives.

We also support project groups (new buildings, working methods, organizational changes) to better integrate the preservation of employees' health into change management, in order to facilitate acceptance and ultimately success. This work is essential to preserve the motivation and commitment of employees.

Finally, we help to strengthen the functional links between managers, human resources (HR) specialists and occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals. Often, employee health management is treated as a separate topic, to be kept as the last item on the executive committee's agenda, to be dealt with if time permits. Why is this? Because too few health and safety specialists are trained to understand the strategic issues facing companies and to align their action plans with these issues. By acting as an intermediary, we enable everyone to better perceive corporate health management as a means of developing the performance and attractiveness of companies, and therefore as a factor of competitiveness.