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3º Seminário de Ergonomia e Tecnologias Aplicadas (SETA) - TARDE

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  • Purpose of the seminar (SETA 2024 / “3º Seminário de Ergonomia e Tecnologias Aplicadas”)

    • Discusses ergonomics as applied to workplace health, occupational safety, and current regulatory/practical challenges.
    • Presents research from a multidisciplinary group (Gemeta) and connects academic work to real inspection, prevention, and organizational practice.

  • Core prevention framework (constitutional + ILO conventions)

    • The right to safe and healthy work is treated as a fundamental right (linked to Brazil’s 1988 Constitution and ILO fundamental conventions, especially C155 and C187).
    • Emphasizes that prevention and precaution must guide all actions.
    • Ergonomics and applied technologies are positioned as practical tools to operationalize this right.

  • “6 fronts” / categories of major challenges (as presented by the keynote)

    • Highlights emerging and cross-cutting issues, grouping challenges into broad fronts:
      • Culture of prevention (including ratification/implementation trajectory for ILO C187; need for real practical mechanisms)
      • Emerging risks: climate change, artificial intelligence, outsourcing and precarious work, regulatory weaknesses/deregulation pressures
      • Cross-cutting equity issues: disability inclusion, gender perspective, and broader inclusion
      • Data and underreporting (CAT/SINAN, notification failures, lack of reliable numbers for policy)
      • Participation (workers’ voice is essential; CIPAs and consultation mechanisms must be proactive)
      • Integration of instruments and institutions (coordination between labor, health, education, and other public bodies; links to surveillance and workplace disease/lists)

  • Critique of “paper compliance”

    • Repeated message across speakers: documents and programs must translate into effective prevention in the actual work environment.
    • Targets practices like:
      • mass-produced standardized risk documents
      • ignoring psychosocial/work-organization risks because they “seem hard to measure”
      • relying only on administrative compliance rather than real control and continuous improvement

  • Ergonomics as more than posture/mechanics

    • Ergonomics is framed as covering:
      • work organization and work rhythms
      • labor relations and autonomy/control
      • psychosocial risks and organizational dynamics
    • Warning: many companies still treat ergonomics narrowly (e.g., chairs/posture), leaving psychosocial risk management incomplete.

  • Psychosocial risks: what they mean operationally

    • Treated as occupational risks related to the work environment, not an “assessment of workers’ mental states.”
    • Proper approach focuses on job/task demands and work conditions, plus the effectiveness of prevention measures.
    • Workers must participate (qualitative, participatory evaluation), and evidence beyond employee perception should be used.

  • Regulatory integration: NR-1 with NR-17

    • Central regulatory lesson:
      • NR1 requires a management system integrating ergonomics and psychosocial risk considerations.
      • NR17 connects ergonomic assessment and workplace conditions to occupational risk management.
    • Inspection guidance note: psychosocial items had a temporary limitation in penalties due to a Supreme Federal Court (STF) preliminary decision, but other aspects remain enforceable; the integration remains conceptually required.

  • Labor inspection methodology (practical oversight model)

    • Inspection is described as:
      • evidence-based (documents + field verification of real work activity)
      • using a double-visit criterion for many situations (first visit = notification/correction; second visit = possible fine)
      • focusing on whether management systems (GRO/PGR/etc.) actually address hazards and lead to continuous improvement
    • Inspectors look for whether:
      • preliminary ergonomic assessment (EP/AET) exists (as required)
      • psychosocial hazards were considered in integrated risk management
      • workers were heard during ergonomic/ergonomic risk assessment
      • risks were evaluated with probability/severity logic
      • action plans are built and tied to identified hazards and risk grading
      • prevention measures follow the hierarchy of controls (avoid/eliminate → collective controls → administrative/work reorganization → PPE last)

  • Applied research contributions (examples from presentations/panels)

    • Nursing professionals: relationships between psychosocial factors, DORT, burnout, and presenteeism; use of PLS-SEM and validated questionnaires.
    • Hospital safety culture: building a methodology integrating:
      • safety culture
      • ergonomics of real work
      • resilience engineering
      • data collection through observation, interviews, questionnaires, and document analysis; focus on urgency/emergency unit realities.

  • Seminar structure and planned activities

    • Includes:
      • morning panels/discussions on psychosocial risk factors and regulatory topics
      • afternoon lectures on NR-focused inspection and ergonomics-related research presentations
      • a research presentation panel and Q&A
    • Logistics:
      • written questions submitted via a form (referenced as “Even 3 area”)
      • recording posted to BERGO’s YouTube channel
      • attendance list required for certificates; also a YouTube-based request path

Methodology / instruction-style content

A) Prevention-and-precaution “system logic” (how organizations should think)

  • Treat safe/healthy work as a rights-based duty, not only a compliance task.
  • Apply prevention and precaution consistently across:
    • culture
    • technology adoption
    • norms/NRs
    • institutional integration and surveillance
  • Avoid “NR-only” reasoning:
    • NR standards reinforce duties derived from Constitution and ILO conventions
    • If hazards remain, additional action beyond minimum compliance is required

B) Integrated occupational risk management + ergonomics (what to include)

  • Build/maintain an occupational risk management system (NR1 framework) that includes:
    • risk identification (hazards)
    • risk assessment
    • planning of preventive measures
    • continuous improvement (PDCA-style)
  • Ensure ergonomics is integrated into that system:
    • conduct preliminary ergonomic assessment (EP / AET as referenced)
    • incorporate relevant psychosocial and work-organization factors within ergonomic assessment and risk management
  • Ensure workers’ participation:
    • workers must be “heard” in the ergonomic assessment process
    • participation can be evidenced by documentation such as:
      • qualitative notes
      • questionnaire/tool results (when used)
      • fields in ergonomic assessment reports

C) How labor inspection evaluates compliance (operational checklist)

  • Inspection uses a double evidence strategy:
    • documentary evidence:
      • risk inventory / PGR/GRO documents
      • preliminary ergonomic assessment results
      • action plans
      • health monitoring data
      • records of CIPA meetings (when applicable)
    • field verification:
      • check how work is actually performed
      • interview workers/supervisors and observe work conditions in practice
  • Inspectors prioritize key elements, including whether:
    • EP/preliminary ergonomic assessment was performed and included psychosocial hazards (where required by the integrated logic)
    • workers were involved/consulted (not only internal paperwork)
    • the company identified specific work dangers that may not be reflected solely in questionnaire perception (e.g., lack of autonomy, insufficient support, time constraints, conflicts)
    • risk classification considered:
      • probability based on work demands + effectiveness of prevention measures
      • severity based on potential harm nature/magnitude (not “symptoms” of workers)
    • an action plan exists and is aligned to:
      • the hazard and root cause
      • risk grading priority (e.g., high risk requires faster deadlines)
      • continuous improvement and follow-up

D) Hierarchy of prevention measures (control effectiveness logic)

  • Apply the hierarchy of controls:
    • Eliminate/avoid the hazard if possible
    • If not, control via collective protection (environment/process redesign)
    • Use administrative/work reorganization measures (less effective than collective, but still important)
    • Use PPE as the last resort (complementary and temporary if needed)

E) What inspectors say does NOT count as sufficient prevention (anti-patterns)

  • Treating psychosocial risks as “out of scope” for ergonomics.
  • Producing documents that:
    • do not correspond to real work organization
    • ignore real working conditions found in the field
    • are standardized/mass-produced without meaningful improvement outcomes
  • Considering worker mental health assessments as the core method for psychosocial risk evaluation (instead, focus on work conditions and demands).

Speakers / sources featured (identified from subtitles)

  • Lisandra Garciela Vergara (teacher; UFSK) — organizer/moderator; introduced speakers and seminar flow.
  • Cene Luía Zimberman — keynote/presenter (lecture on safe and healthy work and challenges).
  • Mauro Marques Miller — tax auditor (lecture: overview of NR1 inspection and NR17).
  • Aline Claudino da Silva — research presentation (psychosocial factors in nursing: burnout/presenteism).
  • Tamires Barbosa Nunes — research presentation (hospital safety culture: resilience engineering + safety culture + ergonomics).
  • João (João Paulo) — PhD-related talk mention; also participates in Q&A (self-described as João Paul).
  • Mariana Vilela — discusses employment/integration question in Q&A; also described as doctoral student.
  • Ricardo Marrafal — master’s student topic referenced (CREA inspection agents; psychosocial demands).
  • Carlos Marcelo — doctoral student topic referenced (accessibility and ergonomics in federal libraries).
  • Marcelo — doctoral student topic referenced (AI/computer vision platform for ergonomics risk assessment).
  • Natalia — master’s student topic referenced (stress/restoration, ergonomic/environmental psychology in financial institutions).
  • Vinicius — master’s student topic referenced (tactile signage/accessibility in urban environments).
  • Fabíola — Dinter program doctoral student topic referenced (inclusive organizational approach in higher education).
  • Alexandra — Dinter program doctoral student topic referenced (ergonomics and health/productivity in Amazon riverside communities).
  • Adlie — Dinter program doctoral student topic referenced (macro-optimization of mediated face-to-face teaching system for Amazon tech).
  • Public Prosecutor’s Office of Labor (MPT) — referenced as a source of initiatives and protocols.
  • BERGO (Associação Brasileira de Ergonomia e Fatores Humanos) — invited/mentioned; support and committees.
  • IEA (International Ergonomics Association) — referenced as hosting/meeting connection.
  • ILO (International Labour Organization) — conventions and principles referenced.
  • Supreme Federal Court (STF) — referenced in relation to legal decisions affecting psychosocial enforcement.
  • CNPq — referenced as scholarship support (DT productivity grant).
  • Banco do Brasil — referenced via morning case and panel/NR1-related discussion.
  • CREA and CEST / SENGE / Sestri? (unions/associations referenced) — referenced as participating stakeholders in earlier morning discussion.
  • SINAN — referenced as public health reporting system for notifiable diseases.
  • CAT — referenced as work accident reporting channel.
  • CESMT / NETEP / CIPA — referenced as institutional mechanisms for surveillance, training, and risk prevention.

Note: several names appear with subtitle transcription errors or truncated spellings; the list above includes those clearly identifiable in the subtitles.

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