Ergonomics, development and sustainable work: a look for worker's health
Renato José Bonfatti1, Luiz Carlos Fadel de Vasconcellos1, Aldo Pacheco Ferreira1
1Sergio Arouca Public Health National School (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca - ENSP), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) - Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
Background:
The Brundlandt Report (Our Common Future), from 1987, provided just a generic notion of sustainable development, leaving to the political, academic and social milieus the formulation of the technical foundations of sustainability. Within this context, category workers' health was neglected.
Objective:
The present paper discusses the central relevance of work and its relationship to health for the development of sustainability as anchored in the respect for the life and health of workers.
Methods:
Based on the qualitative scientific paradigm and the dialectical method, the theoretical and empirical research conducted in the presented study adopted an epistemological perspective grounded on three basic principles: constructive nature of interpretative knowledge, interactive nature of the research process and significance of singularity as a level of knowledge production through a dialogical process.
Results:
Based on the analysis performed, subject workers' health in its relation to sustainable development was subjected to an epistemological discussion.
Conclusion:
To fully substantiate this notion, the idea of sustainable development implies a thorough involvement of ergonomics and other fields of knowledge related to work.
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