Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) in Brazil
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(As amended on April 29th, 2016) General Principles 12.1 This Regulatory Standard (NR12) and its annexes provides technical references, basic principles and protective measures to ensure the health and physical integrity of workers and establishes minimum requirements for the prevention Read More ...
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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is essential for ensuring the safety and well-being of workers in a variety of industries. In Brazil, it is mandatory to obtain a Certificate of Approval for any product that is intended to be marketed as Read More …
From the effective date of the new NR-04 (November 9, 2022), published by MTP Ordinance No. 2318 of August 3, 2022, the organizations must register the Specialised Services in Occupational Health and Safety (SESMT) with the Brazilian Ministry of Labor Read More …
Inmetro takes another step in the process of adopting digital certification for fuel pumps. The Institute delivers the cryptographic key to the first 2nd level certification authority (CA) in Brazil, the company Soluti. While highlighting that Inmetro works focused on Read More …
The new wording of NR06 – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was published by MPT Ordinance No. 2175 on July 28, 2022, and brought some changes and harmonization with the current version of NR01 – General Provisions and Management of Occupational Read More …
The Ministry of Labor and Social Security and the Ministry of Health updated the list of diseases that exempt the insured under the General Regime of Social Security (RGPS) from the requirement of 12 monthly contributions to access disability benefits. Read More …
Preventive measures in Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) on the organization of the work of motorcycle delivery drivers, who provide services on mobile applications (Apps), are addressed in a technical report. The material was prepared by specialists at Fundacentro and Read More …
The recent CFM Resolution no. 2314/2022 finally brings the explicit authorization for telemedicine in Brazil, without linking such procedure to the state of emergency. The period of uncertainty was long, with the technology available in the market, but without specific Read More …
The Ministry of Labor (MPT), represented by the National Coordinators for the Defense of the Work Environment (Codemat) and for the Promotion of Labor Standards in Public Administration (Conap), issued a Joint Technical Note that rules out the possibility of Read More …
As of September 30, 2022, the following information relative to occupational health and safety will be available on the Brazilian Social Security and Federal Revenue Service websites: Lists of the percentiles of frequency, severity, and cost by Subclass of the Read More …
Brazil must shift to a new green economy based on biogas, biomethane, and solar and wind energy. This is what the Minister of the Environment, Joaquim Leite, said during the Brazil Steel 2022 Congress, an event organized by the Brazil Read More …