2014-12-15
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For ten days, a team of eight Brazilian experts participated in an international mission to Europe to identify best practices for working at height related to legal protections and means of access. The activity comprised the third stage of cooperation in practices for work at height in general activities and, by extension, in the construction industry and port operations.
The mission was sponsored by the EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Facility, which is jointly coordinated by the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (MPOG) and the European Union Delegation in Brazil (Delbra). This activity was selected by the project’s 7th call for participation under the Social Development and Employment dialogue on the theme Safety and Health Management in Work at Height with implications in the Construction Industry and Port Operations.
In the first stage of the mission, the Brazilian experts visited the ports of Lisbon (Portugal), Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Barcelona (Spain), where they identified the practices employed especially for work at height in container handling. In these technical visits, they were able to discuss with local representatives the procedures adopted, the management of work at height and how workers were trained.
"The management adopted in the Port of Rotterdam, one of the main ports in the world, is quite remarkable”, says Mr Luiz Carlos Lumbreras Rocha, tax auditor for the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MTE) and mission coordinator. “The training approaches adopted by the port, based on collective bargaining instruments and allied to the high automation of the operation, allows the implementation of effective management of Health and Safety at Work at height, with techniques that are very similar to those adopted in model Brazilian port," he says.
The information gathered in this first stage of the mission helped to endorse the best practices adopted in Brazil, which were divulged in the 3rd Conference on Ports and Waterways, held in Itajaí, Brazil, in October 2014. A guide of best practices for work at height in port activities is to be published later this year.
In the second stage of the mission, the Brazilian delegation learnt about the management of work at height in the construction sector in Barcelona and Lisbon. In the Spanish city, the group visited Fundación Laboral de la Construcción (FLC), the entity responsible for training workers, providing guidance to businesses and monitoring issues relating to safety and health in the workplace.
In Portugal, mission participants had the opportunity to discuss issues relating to inspection of work at height by the Labour Inspection Authority and the applicable regulations, and to initiate a process of cooperation between the Portuguese and Brazilian labor inspection bodies on issues of mutual interest, such as the inspection in construction, agriculture and the approach to psychosocial risks.
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