
The Environmental Risk Prevention Program seeks to preserve the health and integrity of its collaborators and protect the environment and its natural resources. It’s about continuous action, which should occur at least once a year. The Program is regulated by the NR 9 regulation at the Ministry of Labor and Employment.
Delivers: A base document, which works as a guide for actions to be taken in order to reach the program’s goals. Through these actions, it’s possible to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control the occurrence of environmental risks or other risks that may come to the working environment, such as physical, chemical or biological agents that may be harmful to worker health due to its nature, concentration or intensity.
A set of coordinated measures seeking to prevent the installation or evolution of occupational hearing loss. It is mandatory that it stays integrated with the MCPOH and the ERPP. Whenever the hearing of a worker is at risk, the implementation of HPP is necessary.
Delivers: Evaluating and ensuring the hearing health of workers exposed to high levels of sound pressure, thus avoiding deafness induced by noise or harmful agents.
The goal of the RPP is to adjust the use of respiratory protection equipment – RPE – when needed, to supplement collective protection measures already implemented, or during their implementation.
Delivers: Evaluate and guarantee total protection for workers against existing risks in work environments.
The MCPOH monitors anamnesis and laboratory exams of worker health. The goal is to get an early identification of any anomaly that could be harmful to worker health.
Delivers: Ensuring the company isn’t under the risk of being indicted for an environment that’s unsafe, unhealthy and without protection, which would be a risk to the lives of your employees.
The goal of the TREWC is to identify exposure to physical, chemical and biological agents, or the association of agents harmful to worker health or physical integrity, for purposes that would grant special retirement.
Delivers: The issuing of a technical report for Social Security to evaluate whether or not the retirement class is correct for the applicant.
- Mandatory Occupational Medical Examinations (pre-employment, periodic, post-employment, return to work and change of function physical exams), in accordance with the NR 7 regulation, with the issuing of corresponding fit notes;
- Medical Evaluations and Examinations, including a report for the company, when requested;
- Complementary and Laboratory Examinations.
The ICAP is meant to observe and report risk conditions in work environments and request measures to reduce existing risks until they’re eliminated and/or neutralized.
Delivers: Helps the company’s commission on the prevention of work-related accidents and illnesses, permanently making the work compatible with the preservation of life and the promotion of occupational health.
K4B plans to have Occupational Health Talks in order to develop healthy habits, behaviors and quality of life, leading individuals and communities to attain and maintain great health, both on occupational and non-occupational domains, through information, awareness and individual motivation.