About 80 participants attended the Fundacentro lectures on the first day of the evento
The 22nd edition of the International Safety and Protection Fair – FISP 2018 featured a booth and technical lectures by Fundacentro and the Ministry of Labor. This year, around 700 exhibitors participated in the event, showcasing new technologies, products, and services in the occupational safety and health segment.
The fair, which took place from October 3 to 5, is organized by Cipa Fiera Milano in partnership with Abraseg, Animaseg, and Sindiseg, and brings together more than 50,000 visitors every year. Simultaneously with the fair, the 13th Fire Show – International Fire Fair was held.
FISP is established not only as a space where occupational safety and health professionals receive information on innovations and updates in the field, but also as a space to socialize important information in the world of work.
Therefore, in order to disseminate a culture of prevention, lectures on occupational safety and health were held at the opening of FISP 2018 (10/3). With a classroom set up at the booth, there were lectures by Robson Spinelli Gomes to discuss the 40 years of Regulatory Standards; Fábio Sperducci who approached the Introduction to Accident Analysis and Rogério Galvão da Silva who spoke about Factors influencing decision-making for the improvement of occupational health and safety.
Addressing the 40 years of Regulatory Standards, Spinelli highlighted the importance of creating the standards, an important legal instrument for guaranteeing worker health and safety in the workplace. The Technical Director of Fundacentro also recalled the change regarding the use of the term unsafe act, which has been abolished by Fundacentro and the Ministry of Labor since the 1990s.
For Spinelli, the regulations were a major achievement for workers, but they need to be revised. As an example, he cites the guarantee of hazard pay, found in article 189 of the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT) and used only in Brazil. “Instead of paying hazard pay, we must invest in collective protection equipment as a way to guarantee workers” safety,” he noted.
In a timeline from 1923 to 1944, Spinelli showed the participants the paths taken throughout history in the field of legislation, mentioning the creation of standards, the making of risk maps, and the creation of the Permanent Joint Tripartite Commission (CTPP) in May 2002.
As future perspectives, Robson highlighted the influence of the political context on OSH and reinforced the need for a constant pursuit of updates in the field. “Our country brings demands from an international context. We need to rescue solutions and alternatives to combat occupational accidents,” he reinforced.
Accident concepts
During the lecture: “Introduction to Accident Analysis”, Fabio Sperduti, a civil engineer from the Work Process Safety Coordination, spoke about Heinrich's Theory, or the Domino Theory, which attributes the cause of a workplace accident to human error. According to Fabio, this theory is based on more traditional models, starting from the idea that the individual is to blame.
Other authors such as Michel Llory, Sidney Dekker, and James Reason were introduced by the engineer as a way to reinforce the existing differences between traditional concepts and less traditional ones that evaluate the accident as a whole.
For Fábio, regardless of existing concepts, a single analysis cannot be considered when an accident occurs, as this makes it difficult to arrive at the real reason and consider other causes that led to the accident. “When the focus is on finding the culprit, prevention is forgotten,” the engineer noted.
Manager motivation
Understanding which factors influence the decision-making of top company management to improve OHS is the main objective of the research conducted by Rogerio Galvão da Silva, a researcher at the Work Process Security Coordination.
In the final presentation of the fair’s first day, the expert shared alarming statistics on accident prevention with the participants. In Brazil, 2.3 million deaths are work-related, resulting in a loss equivalent to 4% of global GDP, according to 2016 data from the ILO.
“Preventing accidents is no easy task,” said Galvão, defending the implementation of the project that began in 2018 and intends to reach different audiences as a way to raise the awareness of various social actors and deepen discussions in the OHS segment.
The specialist emphasizes that the discussion on governmental instruments and determinants for the improvement of work environments is an ever-present item on the stakeholders' agenda in the face of the growing challenges of globalization, technological development, unemployment, and the precariousness of labor relations and conditions.
CANPAT is highlighted at Ministry of Labor booth
The National Campaign for the Prevention of Occupational Accidents – CANPAT is an initiative developed by the Ministry of Labor, through the Secretariat of Labor Inspection – SIT. In 2018, CANPAT's themes are Occupational Illness and Falls from Work at Height, addressed during FISP.
To discuss the themes of CANPAT 2018, Labor Auditors Antonio Pereira Filho, Adnoel Sebastião, Joelson Guedes da Silva, Viviane de Jesus Forte, Rodrigo Vaz, Roque Camargo, Gianfranco Silva Pampalon, and José Almeida Junior lectured on: Collective Protection Management in Construction; Consequences of Workplace Accidents; PPE Certification at the Ministry of Labor; Workplace Accident Analysis; Ergonomics; OSH Management in eSocial; and Fall Protection.
The director of the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DSST), Kleber Pereira de Araújo e Silva, participated in the solemn opening session of FISP and visited the Fundacentro booth.
Source: Fundacentro
