The French agency Anact (Agence nationale pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail) has published a free online game designed to help organisations better understand and improve workplace situations. The game, titled “Cap sur les conditions de travail” (“Heading towards working conditions”), is available on the agency’s website and is aimed at anyone within an organisation who deals with working conditions: managers, HR staff, prevention officers and employee representatives.
What the game involves
According to French trade media, “Cap sur les conditions de travail” is set up as a kind of investigation game: players take on the role of an investigator who has to analyse a specific workplace situation. By gathering clues and answering questions, participants gradually learn to look at how work is organised, at the interaction between tasks, resources and workload, and at how small adjustments can make a noticeable difference to employee wellbeing and productivity. The game is designed as an accessible, playful tool that can also be used without prior knowledge of ergonomics or occupational prevention.
Purpose and target audience
The game fits into Anact’s broader mission: giving organisations concrete, practical tools to improve quality of life and working conditions (referred to in France by the acronym QVCT, “qualité de vie et des conditions de travail”). Anact regularly develops this type of accessible tool — the agency has previously released card games and serious games on themes such as remote working, workload and workplace equality. With this new game, the organisation mainly aims to get teams talking about work, so that problem areas become visible earlier and can be tackled preventively rather than only after an incident or a wave of absenteeism.
Why it matters for EHS professionals
For EHS professionals outside France, this initiative is interesting because Anact is a public French agency, funded by the government and the social partners, whose core task is improving working conditions through advice, research and practical tools — comparable to occupational health and safety knowledge institutes elsewhere in Europe. The use of playful, accessible tools to analyse workplace situations fits a broader European trend in which prevention and wellbeing policy increasingly relies on participatory methods rather than purely top-down regulation. For those responsible for working conditions in the Netherlands, Belgium or elsewhere, such a tool can serve as inspiration for their own training or awareness campaigns on workload and work organisation.
This article was compiled based on the source report from actuEL-HSE.fr and additional French trade research; the exact rules and mechanics of “Cap sur les conditions de travail” have not been verified in detail on the Anact website itself.
Source: L’Anact déploie un jeu en ligne gratuit pour mieux comprendre les situations de travail et les améliorer, 14 September 2026, https://actuel-hse.fr/content/lanact-deploie-un-jeu-en-ligne-gratuit-pour-mieux-comprendre-les-situations-de-travail-et
Additional research: Jeu en ligne Cap sur les conditions de travail (anact.fr), Un jeu d’enquête pour explorer l’amélioration des conditions de travail (Preventica), L’Anact propose un jeu sérieux destiné à améliorer les conditions de travail (SST Mag)
