O trabalhador offshore terceirizado e suas condições de trabalho

Abstract

The health of the worker seeks to understand the relationship between work and the health / disease process. From this, there is a need to better understand the work and its conditions. Work in the offshore oil industry is designed by adverse conditions, namely: danger, complexity, continuous character and collective dimension. This segment of work has a large part of outsourced labor, which is characterized by multiple forms of precarious work. Given this conjuncture the present study aims to analyze the collective memories present in narratives of outsourced offshore workers on their conditions and work organizations. This is a case study with a qualitative approach, developed in Paracuru-CE. The sample consisted of 13 professionals from a maintenance outsourcing company in the offshore oil sector. For data collection, a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used. The data of the sociodemographic questionnaires were tabulated in a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet and analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis, the IRAMUTEQ software was used for the interviews and the analysis was based on the Bardin content analysis. The results show that, in the view of the interviewees, offshore work is governed and supervised by various norms. However, there is still a high risk for accidents which generates tension in their workers. The working conditions need to improve, even though it is an old complaint, there are still reports of a lack of material and tools, sometimes having to provide unsuitable ways to not stop production. In the work process there is the call for attendance to work demands in the rest time, because the professionals work under a regime of warning. The social on the platform is watered by relations of differentiation between the boss (effective from the state) to outsourced, not reported by all respondents, but which affects and constrains some. In free time, on the platform, it is common to watch television, some have reported practicing physical activity although there is no incentive to practice and the gym is small for demand and scrapped. At these times, there is also interaction with co-workers, with many conversations, jokes and relaxation. They note that with colleagues there is a family relationship. The relationship of offshore workers with their families who stayed on land is marked by disagreements and absence at important social moments, in addition to the difficulty of communication existing on the days embarked. What minimizes this difficulty are the social networks, for those who have access to the internet. In the period of the study not all the professionals had key of access to Internet and the sharing of this one is not allowed. There is a clear need for greater and better investments in research and policies that will intervene and promote the health of outsourced offshore professionals, in order to modify the reality posed and value them, not only because they contribute significantly to the income of billions businesses and public coffers, but for the dignity of the human person.