Abstract

ESSER DIAZ, Joyce; VASQUEZ ANTUNEZ, Nora; COUTO, María Dolores  and  ROJAS, Mariana. Work, Ergonomy and Quality of Life.: An integrational and conceptual vision.. Salud de los Trabajadores [online]. 2007, vol.15, n.1, pp.51-57. ISSN 1315-0138.

Objective: Introduce the working enviroment, ergonomy and quality of life to an integrational reflection, from a vision of self-determination and selfpoietis in the complexity of the human being, allowing the appreciation and promotion of individual and colective health. Methodology: Theorical investigation, of critical and hermeneutic method. Employing techniques of bibliographical-documental analysis and revision. Discussion: the before mentioned focus, ratifies the strong relationship between work and quality of life, since it places the working enviroment, as one of the elements which affect the life of the human being in a more direct fashion, equal with factors such as family and home. The privileged site which holds everything related with man’s laboral activities, involves a great deal of responsibility from the worker himself to mantain his health in present an future terms, preventing such complications such as debasement and alienation toward his creative activity; as much as the organisms and institutions which have as primordial goal to protect the health and prevent illnes between it’s human capital. Conclusion: Even if work, being as ancient as humanity itself, ergonomy and quality of life are discipline and concept of a far more recent vintage, emerging in development and evolution, with inter and possibly transdisciplinarian characteristics due to the multiple to the vast network of knowledge which interact with one another. They are qualitative and idiographic constructs related to the subjectivity of the worker; with sympathetic social systems constituted from the emotion of compromise, which according to Maturana, is the factor which constitutes the area of acceptance actions based on the agreement on the performance of a given task.

Keywords : Work; Ergonomy; Quality of Life; Selfdetermination.