CAMINHOS PARA UM MEIO AMBIENTE DO TRABALHO NANOTECNOLÓGICO EQUILIBRADO

desafios e perspectivas em um cenário de inovações, riscos e incertezas

Abstract

This article has as its theme the impacts of nanotechnologies on environment, health and safety at work. The world of work, as well as society as a whole, faces a moment of profound and intense changes, led mainly by technological progress. With regard to Environmental Labor Law, technological tools, and in particular nanotechnology, and the impacts of their massive insertion in labor relations, subvert the industrial and concrete logic, closely related to damage and its knowledge, through which environmental, health, and workplace safety issues were previously considered and regulated, raising several legal-normative issues. This, therefore, in addition to the speed and complexity with which they are developed, situations that challenge the ability of the law to follow them, nanotechnologies are characterized by risks, which are markedly unknown, uncertain and abstract. In this sense, the article explores possible pathways for the (Environmental) Labor Law to develop in favor of a safe, healthy, and balanced nanotechnological work environment.. It concludes that there is a need for the creation of new legal alternatives, more aligned with the paradigms of this new context, that contribute to and complement the existing normative structure, as a way to provide efficient responses to the situations presented, bringing balance to the work environment and, above all, safeguarding fundamental rights from the perspective of worker protection.