ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we would like to analyse ways of taking ageing into account when planning work situations, such as are applied by an enterprise that has devoted specific attention to this question (the automobile manufacturer, Renault). In fact, the main reason for developing a specific method for ergonomic analysis in this company, based on the ‘job profile’ method developed in the 1980s was the ageing of their production workers. The globalising approach to the problems of adapting job stations to an ageing population thus relied on a well-tried and accepted analytical tool (the development of an assessment grid). But the choice of tool of this type was justified particularly on account of two essential traits of the socio-organisational context of this enterprise: on the one hand, the extension of the ageing phenomenon itself and, on the other, the implementation of ‘project-based structures’ for product design and manufacture.
