Name: GRACINEIDE MARIA DE SOUZA
Publication date: 03/06/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ANTONIA DE LOURDES COLBARI | Examinador Externo |
| DANIEL CASTILLO HIDALGO | Examinador Externo |
| LUIZ CLAUDIO MOISES RIBEIRO | Presidente |
| THIAGO VINICIUS MANTUANO DA FONSECA | Examinador Externo |
| UEBER JOSE DE OLIVEIRA | Examinador Interno |
Summary: This study brings to light the changes that occurred following the port modernization laws – Law nº 8,630/93 and Law nº 12,815/2013, which revoked the first. The theme is about the modernizing processes and health and safety policies of TPA's - casual port workers - who work in the ports of Espírito Santo. The central objective is to analyze whether the measures used to guarantee the safety and health of workers based on the laws are effective. Work in Brazilian ports has been present in productive relations since colonization and only at the beginning of the 20th century did the class of casual port workers achieve professional recognition. Initially as floating/intermittent workers and later as casual workers. This category had institutional recognition in the 1930s with the promulgation of regulated labor union laws, with the Consolidation of Labor Laws – CLT, of 1943, during the government of Getúlio Vargas. Between the 1930s and 1990s, port activities were regulated by legislation aimed both the port's infrastructure and labor institutions. In 1993, given the situation of scrapped ports and the demand to follow the internal and external market in port services, the first Port Modernization Law was enacted - Law nº 8,630/93. One of the changes to the law was the institutionalization of Casual Port Workers' Labor Management Body – Ogmo -, a measure that directly affected the categories of TPA's. The work is related to port laws in Brazilian territory, which forged changes in the work organization of this peculiar group of workers. The objective is to analyze the social impacts, health, and occupational safety since the so-called Brazilian port modernization, which occurred at the turn of the 21st century. The research required direct contact with several port professionals, to understand how such “modernizing” legislative innovations were implemented in their “community”. The social history of work will guide the search and analysis of the theoretical framework for this study. As a technique for collecting oral sources, the oral history technique was used with interviews and questionnaires; port laws, worker health and safety processes, among other studies carried and questionnaires; port laws, worker health and safety processes, among other studies carried out on this subject, were used as complementary sources. Bibliographical review of sources, including Brazilian port laws, case studies of other ports, information from official websites and works that deal with the subject. We noticed that even with the changes and improvements in worker health and safety policies, there are still several flaws. Accidents and illnesses at work are still common.
