BIOSAFETY AS AN EDUCATIVE ACTION: CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORKERS HEALTH

Abstract

A theoretical conceptual study under the premise that education is something broader and more complex than training and instruction, and it intends, while reflecting on the functions of the education and its implications, to contribute for a better understanding on how education can help in the accomplishment of biosafety norms and in the improvement of workers health conditions. Biosafety is conceived as an educative action, rather than training and norm introjection. Education reminds of joint experience, common activity, something that does not occur in training. The understanding of the biosafety as an educative process implies not only a process of acquisition of abilities and contents, as the idea of educating implies action sharing, taking into consideration agents will and routine, and above all conceiving the agents as citizens of the learning, involving them in its totality, with their singularities and uniqueness. Such understanding of the biosafety also allows a significant advance, namely, the incorporation of workers knowing, one of the basic purposes of workers health.

Keywords

• Biosafety
• Education
• Worker’s Health