CLASSIFIED AREAS: REGULATORY STANDARD 09
June 20, 2018 | Roque de Camargo Jr
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK PREVENTION PROGRAM
Continuing the series of articles being presented on Surveillance, the Labor Tax Auditor Roque de Camargo Jr., postgraduate in Labor Law and Procedural Labor Law, presents important aspects related to the inspection of places subject to explosion risks by the Company. presence of classified areas.
In this case, for the sake of teaching first addresses the norm above. This is because, within the preventive competence of the Ministry of Labor, it is the starting point for any company or activity to look at itself and identify possible sources of health problems.
The objective of NR-09 is stated in its first two items, as follows: “9.1.1. This NR Regulatory Standard establishes the obligation of the elaboration and implementation, by all the employers and institutions that admit workers as employees, of the Environmental Risk Prevention Program - PPPRA, aiming at the preservation of the health and the integrity of the workers, through the anticipation, recognition, assessment and consequent control of the occurrence of environmental risks existing or that may exist in the workplace, taking into consideration the protection of the environment and natural resources.
9.1.2. PPRA actions should be developed within each company establishment, under the employer's responsibility, with the participation of workers, and their scope and depth depend on the characteristics of risks and control needs. ”(Emphasis added)
Anticipating, recognizing, assessing, and controlling workplace hazards is the same as saying, without fear of making a mistake, that the purpose of this Regulatory Standard is to PREDICTION.The evolution of technology in industrial processes and the literature on production methods. allow any activity to be performed with considerable knowledge of its consequences.
The worst should not be expected to happen before reacting. The careful elaboration of the PPRA, congruent with the reality of each activity, avoids future and predictable misfortunes.
Predicting the predictable and taking action to avoid the result removes the blame. This is what legally allows PPRA.
Those programs designed in general should be avoided without specific predictions of their actual activities. Experience has shown that by failing to anticipate process complications, the continuity of a company's life may be threatened by claims that could have been avoided. Every manufacturing process, all activity developed by the company must always be analyzed as a whole.
A plane doesn't just fly because it has powerful engines, it flies because its wings support it. Every flight of any aircraft has a pre-drawn plan, a “flight plan”, so it should be faced by a company that every day takes flight to achieve its goals and the PPRA is nothing more than the “flight plan” of a company that is dedicated to a certain activity.
What is most commonly planned for this purpose is to preserve the health and integrity of the workers involved in the most diverse tasks.
Just as the financial part of a business is the subject of arduous planning, the consequences of the activity undertaken must also be.
In activities that may occur explosive atmospheres or that envisage the existence of classified areas, anticipation is of vital importance. A claim involving these situations usually has large proportions. They cause destruction of equipment and facilities, and often irreparably, of human lives. Not to mention that the natural environment is also harmed, interacting there with another wide range of laws, largely foreseeing the objective responsibility of those who in any way degrade the environment.
PPRA should be faced with a great opportunity to avoid damaging the life of the company. To relegate this Program to a notebook thrown at the bottom of a drawer is to put yourself at risk on purpose.
Every business activity is subject to risks of success and failure that result from numerous factors that are beyond the control of the entrepreneur, such as market, government, foreign exchange, etc. Managing risk factors in the manufacturing process is possible and enables the company to become the pilot of its intended course. (This story will continue in the coming weeks)
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