ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we discuss the role that human factors and ergonomics (HFE) can play in addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We discuss the Agenda for Sustainable Development concerning the centrality of the 17 SDGs and the path to achieve them. Next, we highlight the issues in SDGs, which directly concern HFE, in particular, Activity-Centred Ergonomics (ACE) and Psychodynamics of Work (PDW). We conclude with a reflection on HFE’s assumptions and how they can contribute to sustainable development. Linking work issues to sustainability goals requires highlighting what is in the basis of human actions that affect decisions made by different actors in companies, public institutions, governments, and within the framework of international institutions. Individuals build decisions, individually and collectively; they are the fruit of the intersection of different rationalities that compose them.
