This paper contains the results of a study made in partnership between two research groups. The work situation in a hygiene service of a hospital is the object of the study. The request made by the health and safety services was due to high levels of absenteeism, work diseases and accidents and the direction of the hospital was preoccupied with this scenario and would like to improve the work situation. The study was performed with two different approaches from ergonomics and from work psychodynamics. The results of the study and the dialogue between two different areas can be useful to build work improvements as well as to analyze the relationship between these two disciplines that approaches work with distinct points of view. This discussion concerns complementarities, confluence, and divergence.
Hygiene services; work in hospitals; ergonomics; work psychodynamics; workers health