A vigilância dos processos e ambientes de trabalho : proteção / promoção da saúde e participação democrática no desenvolvimento regional.

Abstract

The study approaches the implementation and the effects of the actions of surveillance of the processes and work environmentss accomplished by sanitary technicians linked the Unique system of Health and syndical representatives, among January of 1999 and December of 2002, in Rio Grande do Sul. Being more specifically analyzed the surveillance actions developed in the municipal district of Porto Alegre and the ones of the state circuit during Olívio Dutra's government. Located in the heart of the conflictive relationship capital/work, the surveillance integrates the list in the new ways of doing health tuned in with the principles of the Constitution of 1988. Having as theoretical horizon the dialectics conception, the study is based on the analysis of the legislation, the produced documents and the analysis of the technicians' perceptions and syndical representatives involved, captured through over two dozens of interviews. The central aims of the work consist of discovering the resolutivity of the actions of surveillance of the point of view of the improvement of the work conditions and the effects for the development of the citizenship and democracy sense of the involved social actors. The analyzed material indicates that the surveillance produced significant effects of the point of view of the improvement of the work environment, as the hygiene and the safety, and it produced changes in the organization of the work. Under the point of view of the citizenship, it is highlighted a deeper understanding of the health - overcoming the restricted conception to the binomial becoming sick-assistence - and the construction of suitable attitudes with a culture democratic-participative, contributing to the regional politicalinstitutional development. Besides the merits and progresses, the study also shows the limits of the surveillance actions and the difficulties of incorporating such practice to the everyday of the Unique system of Health.