Biomedical Engineering Reference
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chapter one
The development of skills
A condition for the construction
of health and performance at work
Catherine Delgoulet and Christine Vidal-Gomel
Contents
Skills as a vector of health and performance ................................................. 4
The preservation of health through the development of skills .............. 4
Acting and understanding: conditions for constructing
performance? ................................................................................................. 5
Work environments for the development of skills ........................................ 7
Favourable conditions: Potential situations of development and
mediation ........................................................................................................ 7
Detrimental conditions: Between strong prescriptions and
uncertainty ..................................................................................................... 8
Designing training systems: The development and transformation
of work ................................................................................................................. 9
Work analysis as a means to construct the external consistency of
a training system ......................................................................................... 10
Work analysis as a tool and an object for training .................................. 11
Analyzing activity during training programs in order to
strengthen their internal consistency ....................................................... 12
Discussion and conclusion .............................................................................. 13
References .......................................................................................................... 14
Ergonomics has always been concerned with the development of opera-
tors, although this has not been at the heart of its research issues (Waterson
et al., 2012). In France, it has only been since the 1990s that ergonomics
has truly tackled this issue, in particular through the goals of transform-
ing and designing work tools and work situations - typically, in the case
of situations and tools for which it was compulsory to take into account
the professional skills involved, as well as their potential transfer and the
related training practices. Hence, the concept of
skill
gradually became
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