Workers’ Health as Human Rights: Time for change!

ABSTRACT

The text proposes a critical reflection on the health of workers as a human right, highlighting the 5th National Conference on Workers’ Health as a milestone for change. It points out the insufficiency of current policies in the face of structural violence in the workplace, revealed daily by accident and disease data. It criticizes narratives that prevent the State from effectively confronting the issue and advocates the integration of identity struggles. It proposes new legal frameworks and the continuation of the post-conference debate, under the motto ‘the 5th continues’.

KEYWORDS
Occupational health; Human rights; Health conferences; Work; Paradigmatic transformation.