ELABORar project: an experience of intervention with workers at the Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The paper reports an experience of intervention performed at Centro de Ciências Agrárias of Universidade Federal do Ceará. Grounded on Clinic of Activity, the intervention is characterized as a health promotion action, according to Política de Atenção à Saúde e Segurança do Trabalho do Servidor Público Federal. The intervention aimed at the technical-administrative staff who act as secretaries of undergraduate, postgraduate, academic departments and teachers who head these sectors. The intervention comprises three steps: the construction of analyzes and proposals to transformations, the formulation of an action plan and monitoring the implementation of this planning. Considering the developmental-historical methodology, the instruction to the double and the Escala de Avaliação do Contexto de Trabalho (Work Context Assessment Scale) were used. Workers identified problems related to failures in the activity’s prescription, to difficulties in the relationship with their colleagues and bosses and debilities in the work conditions. Transformation proposals of work context were conceived, so as a planning for its execution. It was concluded that is indispensable the creation of dialogue spaces between the workers and enlarge the interlocution with theirs bosses, and also more attention with the actualization of the prescription forms and the circulation of informations within the institutions.