Segurança e saúde no trabalho: um estudo da política pública intersetorial desde 1997.

Abstract

This thesis has as its starting point the relationship between the Ministries of Health, Labor and Social Security, in view of the 2011 National Policy on Safety and Health at Work. It brings evidence of the lack of integration among these ministries, and the lack of real decision-making in view of the intersectoral approach promised by the Policy, which is a major obstacle to the reduction and elimination of harmfulness at workplace. We sought to explain the persistence of these obstacles from the historical roots of this protection to workers and political, ideological and sectoral differences between the three ministries, here pointed out. The work focuses on the analysis of the historical, constitutional and infra-constitutional aspects of the legislation on the subject, concerned with the formal construction of the policy implemented by the Ministries of Health, Labor and Social Security, in the period 1997-2012, when they joined the Health Interministerial Labor Executive Group and the Tripartite Commission of Health and Safety at Work. Therefore, this thesis presents the actions to meet the demands concerning Safety and Health at Work in each ministry involved in this policy, highlighting the reasons that hinder the intended integration by a national politics. In its absence, the work distinguishes the different directions and perspectives of each participating ministry, depending on the polarization between a corporate point of view and a universal viewpoint of labor protection.