What is it about?
It is about the occupational health and safety conditions faced by rag pickers in Brazil.
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Why is it important?
Because this is a group of workers whose working conditions are not well known and studied throughout the world, though they are exposed to a variety of hazards without much protection.
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This is an important piece of work because it surveyed a large number of difficult to reach workers in a midsize city located in the South of Brazil. It provides good evidence to the hazards faced by these informal workers in a peripheral society.
Dr. Eduardo Siqueira
University of Massachusetts Boston
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This page is a summary of: World at work: Brazilian ragpickers, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, October 2005, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.020164.
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