O procurador do trabalho e o SUS – Ministério Público do Trabalho e política nacional de saúde do trabalhador: interface entre o papel de promotor social e a busca pela intersetorialidade.

Abstract

Introduction: The Public Labor Ministry (MPT), a specialized branch of the Public Ministry of the Union (MPU), is one of the fundamental actors in the promotion and protection of workers, and despite it is not expressly mentioned in the National Health and Worker Safety Policy, it has valuable potential for dialogue and promotion of intersectoriality for the construction and implementation of public policies, that provide action in favor of Decent Work, as recommended by the ILO. Objective: To emphasize the role of the MPT as a social promoter of public policies related to health and safety in the work area, specifically with regard to national policies, based on intersectoral practices. Methodology: It is a study of bibliographical and documentary research between 2010 and 2014. The bibliographic search was achieved based on the intersectoriality theme in Health and Safety at Work (HSW) policies in national journals available at the Scielo database and the documentary research was carried out in ministerial documents and official publications of the MPT, both in the same time cut. Results: From the parameters defined in the methodology, 37 articles were identified and analyzed, of which 16 were studies of SCIELO databases. Another 17 were published in official publications of the MPT, of which 7 were studies and 10 were procedural documents, mainly initial petitions for Public Civil Actions (ACPs). Among the 16 studies with intersectoral practices, there was reference to the articulation with MPT in 7 articles, which represents 43.75% of the cases of intersectoral practices in Worker's Health referenced in the databases used in the research. Conclusions: We conclude that the possibilities and potential of intersectoral articulation are broad. Even in the cases of intersectorial actions in which the participation of the MPT was not identified, we showed the potentials of action in each case, whose future prospects imply possibilities of interaction with the social actors of the SUS and others involved with the theme. The studies and speeches show that, even within the SUS, the construction of intersectoral actions is still a challenge, and articulation with the MPT is therefore a major challenge in the effective implementation of the National Policy Occupational Health and Safety. However, the combination of efforts, articulated among all social actors, may be able to modify the scenario that places Brazil in the first rankings of sickness and accidents at the expense of work, against the global picture.