Forum: social network for the surveillance and prevention of workplace accidents

Abstract

In 2008, academic researchers and public service officials created a university extension studies platform based on online and on-site meetings denominated "Work-Related Accidents Forum: Analysis, Prevention, and Other Relevant Aspects. Its aim was to help public agents and social partners to propagate a systemic approach that would be helpful in the surveillance and prevention of work-related accidents. This article describes and analyses such a platform. Online access is free and structured to: support dissemination of updated concepts; support on-site meetings and capacity to build educational activities; and keep a permanent space for debate among the registered participants. The desired result is the propagation of a socialtechnical-systemic view of work-related accidents that replaces the current traditional view that emphasizes human error and results in blaming the victims. The Forum uses an educational approach known as permanent health education, which is based on the experience and needs of workers and encourages debate among participants. The forum adopts a problematizing pedagogy that starts from the requirements and experiences of the social actors and stimulates support and discussions among them in line with an ongoing health educational approach. The current challenge is to turn the platform into a social networking website in order to broaden its links with society.

A expansão do objeto da vigilância em acidente do trabalho: história e desafios de um centro de referência em busca da prevenção

“…Implantation of SIVAT-Piracicaba allowed articulating the epidemiological information collected from the emergency and urgent care network with priority-oriented surveillance actions 3 . Upgrade of the pilot project 12 to the countywide scale was achieved through a partnership with universities through research projects (Community enlargement). As a result, SIVAT was transformed into a systematic and permanent public policy for surveillance, which operates to this day.…”

“…To reinforce the thus developed methodological instruments, a Work Accidents Forum was launched in 2008 as a place for divulgation of the organizational approach, as well as to deconstruct the practice of blaming victims for accidents. The Forum further includes initiatives for continued education, courses, online debates, distribution of videos and news and a Facebook page, among others, so as to develop a social network targeting prevention 12 .…”

“…CEREST-Piracicaba obtained wide acknowledgement, in addition to receiving national awards. Together with researchers from universities in the state of São Paulo (School of Public Health, University of São Paulo/Escola de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo -FSP-USP), and School of Medicine of Botucatu, São Paulo State University (Faculdade de Medicina de Botuctatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista -FMB/UNESP) CEREST-Piracicaba staff participated in the design and application of Model for Analysis and Prevention of Accidents (MAPA) 11 , as well as in the development of Forum of Analysis, Accidents Prevention and Related Aspects 12 , which in June 2016 held its 54 th meeting.…”

Collective commitment towards occupational accidents prevention: 20 years of the history of the Cerest in Piracicaba

“…Villela presents a timeline containing the most important achievements of the center. Among these, the following should be mentioned: the organization of sectoral negotiations 3 , the Work-Related Accident Surveillance and Investigation System (SIVAT) 11 , the creation of the Work-Related Accident Forum 12 in partnership with Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), and the Accident Analysis and Prevention Model 13 .…”

Os impactos na tripulação de voo com a implantação do sistema de gravação de imagem aerotransportados (Airborne Image Recorder System - AIRs) na cabine de comando

“…Apesar do atual período histórico em que o confronto científico, teórico e conceitual tem sido considerado insuficiente para o convencimento e a conjectura de mudanças no mundo do trabalho (Vilela et al, 2012), não se pode furtar a apresentação de importantes evidências empíricas encontradas na literatura, que convoca os importantes personagens desse contexto a uma reflexão profissional acerca do tema.…”