A certificação florestal como instrumento de promoção da segurança do trabalhador na exploração florestal: estudo de caso da Floresta Estadual do Antimary - FEA

Abstract

The 1990s revealed important changes in the Brazilian forest policy with the implementation of forest management, provoking less predatory forest practices. Hence, the creation of a mechanism that rewarded the enterprises that carried out the forest management in an appropriate way was encouraged throughout the world, influencing the creation of the forest certification that served the economic, environmental and social interests. In order to obtain forest certification, requirements established by the certifying bodies must be met, where health and safety at work are some of the indispensability. The Antimary State Forest located in the municipality of Bujari state of Acre, Brazil, had its pioneer in the concession of forest exploitation where it was presented as the first Brazilian public forest to receive the seal of certified area in the country. Therefore, the current work aimed to analyze the forest certification process regarding to the fulfillment of the labor legislation related to health and safety at work. For this purpose, it was used the study of secondary data collection through documents issued by the certifying company, government agencies and exploration companies. It was verified that the biggest bottleneck in the management of The Antimary State Forest is related to the concession with labor rights, presenting 28 nonconformities out of 97 in the period from 2005 to 2013. Furthermore, the non-implementation of a management system related to the health and safety of the work that passes both in the difficulties of executing the labor policy and in the implementation of the programs of prevention to the health of the workers is a barrier to overcome as well. Thus, it is evident that the forest certification was presented in an auxiliary way to the conformity with the labor legislation in the forest exploitation of the state forest, although this mechanism did not fully evaluate the one that advocates the safety of work in Brazil.