Abstract
“Psychosocial risks at work” have now been recognised, described, and commented on by a number of legal disciplines. Working conditions have changed, sometimes in ways that may damage workers’ mental and physical health. Psychosocial risks (PSR) are a novel area of work-related risks in that they have multiple causes and involve individual subjectivity: each person reacts differently when he or her is facing psychosocial risks. A comparative legal overview is useful for undestanding the necessity to take into account nowaday the work environment in the occupational health policy and to look beyond only health and safety. The challenge is also to change the approaches, in other words to move from reparation to prevention.
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Lerouge, L. (2017). Health and Safety Law and Psychosocial Risks at Work: A Comparative Overview of France and Other Countries. In: Lerouge, L. (eds) Psychosocial Risks in Labour and Social Security Law. Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63065-6_2
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