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In oil exploration and production, workers are exposed to a series of risks associated with conditions and work organization in this sector. Our aim is to analyze how such exposure tends to be potentiated due to the precariousness and intensification of the work in well drilling, a high-risk activity. The theoretical-methodological framework privileges the activity-centered ergonomics and the psychodynamics of work, in an ergological perspective, seeking to boost the relationship between the knowledge of science and practical experience. The main method used involves dialogic interviews with professionals of the largest multinationals of well drilling. The analysis of the exposed situations shows that, in the context of the most recent crises and restructurings in the oil industry, elements such as extrapolation of work hours, organizational pressures, and cost reductions can compromise health and safety, contributing to increase workers' exposure to the multiple risk factors present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the resonances of Ivar Oddone's work and his collaborators in research and interventions related to worker health in Brazil. The book "Work Environment: The Workers' Struggle for Health" is highlighted as an important reference for understanding and transforming work in order to promote worker health. The text emphasizes the value of workers' knowledge and the importance of collaboration between researchers and workers. Additionally, current perspectives in the Brazilian context are presented, such as the creation of an Expanded Community of Research-Intervention and the use of social cartographies in communities affected by disasters. The work also addresses the importance of recognizing and valuing the knowledge of peoples fighting for their emancipation. [Extracted from the article]

This article analyzes, in a situated perspective, the antecedent norms that affect the work of platform drivers and food delivery couriers who work using on-demand apps, in order to discuss the implications of these current forms of control and algorithmic management of work. It also seeks to identify elements of collective action that refer to the mobilization and construction of reserves of alternatives. From the ergological perspective, the research method was based on Meetings about the Work, preceded by documentary analysis, questionnaires, and interviews. The results point to demands and challenges imposed by this management method, as well as to the renormatizations carried out in the construction of reserves of alternatives, and, among them, the establishment of sociability networks. It also discusses how the absence of state regulation, as well as the sophisticated and complex technology incorporated by the platform companies can contribute to deepening the process of social insecurity and exploitation of workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper originated from a critical view about the way we practice our craft as researchers. What intrigued us the most was what we do in and with the language interactions. It is with this perspective that the activity of dialogue carried out between researchers and a worker - in this case an oil engineer - is discussed. This is one of the activities undertaken in our research in the project Work, health and safety in the offshore oil industry in the Bay of Campos, Brazil. It is understood that the need to deal with the language issue is prior to the development of methods that involve dialogue activities. In other words, the theorisation with language begins in the conception and preparation of the methods. The analyses that were done highlight the development of a discourse genre of a new type, which appeared in the historicity of others - spontaneous conversation and interview - within the dialogic community formed, so to give support to the promotion of health and safety in the work place in the oil industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]