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Cooperation is a fundamental part of the construction of the workers' mental health and an essential pillar for building a work environment where there are trust at work. The objective of this paper is debating the formal and the informal cooperation networks which exist in the work of labor judges and the impacts they exert in facing the real work. Although the formal evaluation methods of judges are basically quantitative and individualist and there are no institutional mechanisms which reinforce the peer-to-peer exchanges and value the return of experience, we can observe the creation of cooperation networks within peers. This paper is part of the research "Constructing intersectorality in the field of occupational health: Perspective of Professionals in the Services Network of the City of São Paulo", sponsored by FAPESP. The methodology is based on the concepts of Psychodynamics of Work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of sustainability, increasingly present in the world of production, is generally presented as an issue involving the environment and social responsibility. The purpose of this article is first to propose a discussion on sustainability where the issue of work becomes central and secondly by proposing a sustainable vision for approaching work, in an attempt to bring this issue to the centre of the debate. Despite this proposal seeking to include work on the agenda of sustainability, this is not a new issue. The different disciplines that deal with work include this theme in their conceptual framework, even if they do not make sustainable work an explicit issue. In the case presented here, the proposal to create a sustainable view of work proposes a discussion among the different disciplines that deal with production, work design and management and is based on the ergonomics of activity and the psychodynamics of work. The argument proposed is based on a case study carried out with workers in the Family Health Program in Brazil and, more specifically, the Community Health Agents. The results of the study reveal fundamental aspects of the work these people do and show that, to develop public health programs that can be considered sustainable, i.e. that endure and are able to achieve their objectives, it is fundamental that work is treated from the perspective of its inscription in time, of the construction of health, together with personal and professional development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]