Hélder Pordeus Muniz

Ivar Oddone e sua contribuição para o campo da Saúde do Trabalhador no Brasil

This essay discusses the contributions of both Ivar Oddone and the Italian Worker’s struggle for health Model (IWM) for the development of the worker’s health field, particularly in Brazil. It starts by revising the ways the IWM legacy was incorporated to the Worker’s Health research and practices. Then, it presents the building of the industrial hazard mappings experience carried out in the Southeast of France. The third part deals with the concept of “expanded scientific community” and its derivations. Finally, it discusses the “instruction to the double” technique as an effective instrument for workers’ re-appropriation of their strategies for action at work and for their implementation. The paper highlights that it is not a matter of incorporating the Italian experience, but of working out its principles and experiences, considering its potential power for instigating collective actions and for strengthening existing mobilizations. The paper points at the IWM up to date aspect: although the traditional ways of struggling are less evident, one can be sure of workers’ recreating capacity.

A gestão coletiva dos serviços de saúde pública: uma perspectiva ergológica

From the analysis of work situations, it is observed that the management of work is not the responsibility of the individual but of relatively pertinent collective entities. They are what enable the renormalizations, building talks so that the renormalizations do not occur in an individualistic movement, but in the synergy of the construction of a historical heritage. Reflexions concerning two services of a public hospital in Brazil are retaken and, with an ergological perspective, it is discussed that these collective entities are not predetermined, as they emerge from the debates of norms and values that occur in developing activities. In the service of marking of exams and the ward service, the norms correspond simultaneously to norms related to procedures and organization of work, but they also correspond to the singular treatment of specific situations of the patients who pose a debate without measurement scale (the common good) and measurable values (market). The process that happens has consequences in the work of managers and workers of the services, and also the work of the intervener-ergologist, for whom its a primary task to better understand collectively the interrelationship of these values and how to better work with them in the management process.