Identification of influences and development of strategies to encourage return to work but also to ensure that the world of labour integrates new parameters more effectively. These parameters include: employees’ age, chronic back pain or even the specific needs of transplant patients.

New approaches (biotechnology), new substances (nanoparticles) and new occupations emerge. What are the risks? Without past experience, new analysis and operating methods need to be developed.

Development of new strategies to characterise more specifically the levels of occupational exposure to pollutants as well as the resulting health risks. Among the lines of attack in this research: analysis of pollutants in air or in the body, the use of innovative statistical approaches and the design of job-exposure matrices.

Research on respiratory psychophysiology, on emotions, social interactions in the workplace and co-operative work, preventing exclusion from working life or the development of support mechanisms for integration.

True to our mission of putting occupational health at the service of well-being, we are interested in nuisance – any developing sensory nuisance, especially in the tertiary sector. An intrusive smell which reduces our performance, colleagues talking loudly, a dazzling light or screen can all make us more vulnerable.