Research Group on Social Security and the Prevention of Labour Risks

Lines of research

• Protection of certain collectives
• Susceptible subjects, maternity benefits and risks during pregnancy and protection of maternity within the scope of employment
• Incapacity, disability and handicaps, and risk prevention at work
• Partial retirement, flexible retirement, atypical work contracts, and risk assessment
• The multiple meanings of concepts of work accidents and professional illnesses seen from the standpoints of risk prevention (the concept of risk) and Social Security (concept of contingency): convergences and dysfunctions
• New pathologies (moral harassment, brain and cardiovascular illnesses, etc.)
• Implications for Social Security schemes for the self-employed (RETA, RETM, REA): obstacles to homogenization and schemes
• The two faces of work accident insurance companies
• Commercial risk insurance and voluntary improvements
• Liability in social security and prevention matters
• Assignation of social security liabilities related to work inspections in cases of non-compliance with safety measures: Temporary Employment Agencies, Contractors and Subcontractors
• Compatibility and incompatibility of liabilities: Extension of the NON BIS IN IDEM principle
• The STILL confusing nature of benefit surcharges
• Specific issues for self-employed workers
• New social needs and the demands for reforms to the social security system
• Work accident rate and the protection of dependent persons under age 65
• Preventive measures in the workplace, maintenance of healthy conditions, quality of life, and protection of dependent persons under age 65