[Preventing damage to workers' health: redesigning jobs through day-to-day negotiation].
This paper reflects on prevention of harm to workers' health by redesigning jobs. Assuming redesign as the process of negotiating organizational choices, the author discusses the characteristics of routine negotiation at the workplace, illustrated by daily negotiations in work process organization at a Brazilian food-processing factory. Finally, the author discusses both the range and limits of such negotiations in the prevention of harm to workers' health.
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Leny
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Departamento de Psicologia Social e do Trabalho, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brasil. lenysato@usp.br
D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D017008:Negotiating; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis