Tuesday, April 11, 2017
The International Seminar on NR 12 opened the schedule for the last day of FIMMA Brazil 2017. The impacts and opportunities provided by the regulation regulating safety on the work in machines and equipment were approached by four guests connected to the furniture sector.
Executive Manager of Labor Relations of the National Confederation of Industry – CNI, Sylvia Lorraine Teixeira de Souza stressed that the purpose of NR 12 is to ensure worker safety in the interaction with machines and equipment. “It is possible to combine worker protection without leaving aside the sustainability and competitiveness of companies,” he said.
Souza pointed out that Brazil ranks 81st in the ranking of competitiveness and, in the 16th, in a list of 18 countries, with regard to legal certainty.
According to the executive manager, the Brazilian labor environment is not conducive to competitiveness. She considers that the work of revision of the norm by the Permanent Joint Tripartite Committee of NR 12 of the Ministry of Labor already makes some progress and believes that the construction of an annex for the furniture sector can meet the specificities of the segment.
The representative of the National Confederation of Industry – CNI in the Tripartite Commission, José Luiz Pedro de Barros, also presented some advances to the public. Among them are the adaptation of specific deadlines for certain sectors, the definition of a differentiated treatment for micro and small enterprises and the alteration of devices that represent potential obstacles for export. “It is important to emphasize that we are not seeking to withdraw worker protection, but to achieve balance. All this was done through dialogue with other ministries and the mobilization of federations, unions and entities, “he said, presenting the decrees and technical notes published between 2015 and 2016, and added:” Portarias and notes do not solve everything, but bring Many breakthroughs. ”
In dealing with the evolution of the negotiations, the representative of the Brazilian Association of Machinery and Equipment Industry – ABIMAQ, Lourenço Righetti Neto, in turn, provided a brief overview of how a regulatory standard is drafted. He also highlighted some guarantees registered in agreement with the Federal Senate in December 2016, such as the double fiscal visit within three years and differentiation of obligation for manufacturers and users.
Among the outstanding points of negotiation are the creation of isonomy of machines of national manufacture and imported products and the progress in the development of annexes that allow the adaptation of NR 12 to sectoral needs.
To conclude the Seminar, the representative of the Brazilian Association of Furniture Industries – ABIMÓVEL, Clovis Veloso de Queiroz Neto, shared with the present data on the supervision of the furniture sector. The figures were taken from the Federal Labor Inspection System (SFIT) and refer to the period from November 2007 to November 2016.
The largest movement for regularization in fiscal actions, which result in interdiction, occurs, by order, in the states of Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo and Paraná. The main items checked by the former NR 12 were: lack of adequate safety devices in machinery and equipment, lack of protection in machines with risk of rupture, grounding of equipment that generates energy and protection against the release of particles.
By the new wording, the main responsible for the interdiction of companies is the lack of protection of force, of suitable security systems and grounding.
Neto also brought data from the manufacturing segments of wooden furniture, metals, other materials and mattresses. The data show an increase in the assessments from the new writing of NR 12, which, according to him, is related to the greater attention given by the oversight bodies to the theme and the training of teams.
At the end, it reinforced the need for unity and mobilization around the adoption of the draft annex for the furniture sector.
Present at the event, the director of the company Pró-Ação and president of the Fair of business and technology in waste, water, effluents and energy – FIEMA Brazil, Jones Favretto, followed the attentive approaches and thanked FIMMA Brazil for bringing the theme, which he Considered very important for all sectors. “NR 12, a standard that has a very large impact on business, has created a series of short-term and, in some ways, difficult to execute,” he said.
According to Favretto, the speakers presented what has been negotiated with the government, with workers and other entities, to soften somewhat the impact of this norm, to facilitate the implementation by the companies and also to remove the industries from illegality. “It was timely, because they brought good knowledge of the case and updated us about what has been done in Brazil to minimize the impact, without taking the necessary security that must be guaranteed in the workplace, “he said.
The professor of the University of Caxias do Sul – UCS, Tiago Poletto, pointed out that the Seminar gave an overview of what is meant by appropriations and the path that NR 12 will follow in the coming years. “It was extremely valid for the industry to be able to prepare and to comply with the rules”.
He also highlighted that UCS’s Bento Gonçalves unit has the courses of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and the professionals of these graduations launched in the market will invariably come across these types of questions. “Today we had the presence of several students, and I believe that the importance of this knowledge for the insertion in the labor market is gigantic”, he concluded.
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