The Expansion Building of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) received a workshop for consolidating the Collegiated Coordination (CCol) of the project “Implementação de Ações de Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador (Visat) no âmbito da Rede Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde do Trabalhador (Renast) (Implementation of Worker’s Health Surveillance Efforts (Visat) in the scope of the Brazilian Network of Full Worker’s Health Care (Renast))”, supported by Fiotec. The purpose is to training worker’s health surveillance multipliers and public agents for acting in the states of the North, Northeast and Mid-West regions of Brazil.
“Occupational accidents, as well as diseases sourced from the workplace are more serious than they seem to be. There are 700,000 accidents and diseases happening every year in Brazil and about 5,000 deaths per year. This represents more than 10 deaths per day”, said Luiz Carlos Fadel de Vasconcellos, project coordinator, emphasizing the importance of the proposal.
The project will have two phases. The first will be the training of 80 multipliers by the CCol coordinators. The second is the training of the Visat public agents, by means of basic courses to be performed by the multipliers. The estimate is that each two multipliers trained minister at least two courses in the biennium 2014/2015. Considering that each class will have the average of 30 students, the expectation is 2,400 Visat public agents to be trained, direct or indirectly related to the Worker’s Health Reference Centers (Cerests), the Brazilian Worker’s Health Councils (Cists), among others.
“We want to train professionals acting in the field to stop this problem with so little disclosure in Brazil”, said the coordinator. Vasconcellos said also that the regions comprised in the moment were chosen due to higher need. “The South and Southeast regions have a higher number of qualified surveillance professionals. We do intend to create multipliers in those regions. But, currently, we believe the North, Northeast and Mid-West regions are more in need”, he said.
