A ação regressiva acidentária como instrumento de tutela do meio ambiente do trabalho

Abstract

The environment of work and the regressive action related accidents are the objects of the present study. The sound environment, including that of the work, is handled by the Federal Constitution of 1988 as a fundamental right, essential to the implementation of the basic principle of human dignity, to be obtained with the enjoyment of a healthy quality of life. For this reason, several instruments are available by standing order for the protection of that right. The action regressive related accidents, under art. 120 of Law No. 8.213/91, is one such instruments. However, had long been virtually ignored by social security, as a holder of the right/duty to return, an omission which, fortunately, have been suppressed in recent years by the actions of the Attorney General´s Office, through the Federal Attorney General, which issued regressive action related accidents among its priority actions. The society, by ignoring the institute, also did not charge its use, despite its potential for protection of the right of workers to perform their working activities in safe and healthy, coming mainly from its pedagogical-punitive. About the social values of work is based on our Republic and the exercise of their professional activities is indispensable to the citizens for the consolidation of that right. But not just any job, but he played under appropriate conditions, without risk, to ensure the life, health and physical and mental health workers, because only with the care of these assumptions is that the actual principle of the dignity of human person. Official statistics about accidents at work in Brazil, although only reflect the framework of formal employment, they show real affront to the fundamental right to work, balanced environment, the work included therein, and human dignity. The environmental principles play an important role in controlling workplace risks, why should serve as guidance to all those responsible for overseeing the work environment in their continuing work to improve conditions in this environment. Moreover, the constitutional principles of economic order must be reconciled with the fundamental right to a balanced environment, which also happens to be a collective duty. The classic institute of liability needs to be reformulated before it can be satisfactorily applied in the environmental sphere and that goes beyond mere pacification about its impact on the objective modality. The duty to assume responsibility for environmental risks must be anticipated to action, to avoid the consequences of which traditionally falls on the institute. The work performed in the right environment is worthy to be guaranteed to all workers, regardless of the means of formalizing the working relationship and the size of the company in which it is exercised, not serving the payment of insurance against accidents at work as authorization for dereliction of duty. The development of public policies on the environment of work, as well as the detailed study of their instruments of protection, as is the case of the regressive action related accidents, it is essential to guarantee the right.