Abstract
Introduction:
the reported experience concerns the initiatives developed by the Inter-union Training Forum on Health-Labor-Law for the Action in Occupational Health, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 2015 to October 2017. The Forum is a space for articulation between public institutions and the trade union movement whose initiatives include ordinary and extraordinary meetings, working groups, newsletter, inter-union training courses, seminars, meetings and workshops.
Objective:
to describe and discuss the Forum’s performance as an instrument for analysis and consolidation of worker’s health. Methods: organized as an extended peer community, the Forum was analyzed from three dimensions: an empirical study on the participants’ perception, using the Swot method, literature review and analysis of documents produced within it.
Results:
the authors evidenced obstacles, advances, challenges and results related to the Forum’s operating dynamics and contribution to the implementation of worker’s health.
Conclusion:
the results demonstrated the relevance and viability of the Forum as a community capable of contributing for the diffusion and consolidation of the worker’s health area in Brazil.
Keywords:
occupational health; trade union movement; expanded peer community; public policies