Expansive learning to transform occupational safety and health

Vivian Aline Mininel, Sandra Lorena Beltran Hurtado, Sandra Francisca Bezerra Gemma, Nataly Gardona, Manoela Gomes Reis Lopes, Iracimara de Anchieta Messias, Ana Yara Paulino

• Publisher: EdUFSCar
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9788576006879
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: General Health

This book aims to present the insights, innovations, and transformations resulting from interventionist studies in the field of Occupational Health, conducted under the thematic project Innovation and Transformation for Occupational Risk Prevention Activity (Itapar). These studies address the urgent need for practical research that not only improves working conditions but also empowers workers with the skills and knowledge necessary to drive these changes. The formative interventions presented innovatively combine concepts and techniques from Activity Ergonomics with the Change Laboratory (CL) method, aiming for the collaborative development of solutions to overcome contradictions found within and between activity systems.

Table of contents

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. Formative interventions for the prevention of occupational risks and hazards: theoretical and methodological principles of the Change Laboratory
• 2. Actions in the face of a perverse problem: challenges for a solution to pesticide contamination
• 3. Water management of a micro-watershed and discursive manifestations of contradictions between sugarcane monoculture and family farming
• 4. Physical spaces as manifestations of contradictions in the activity system: a study in the military police of THE Santa Catarina state
• 5. Intervention in the Attention and Reference Service in Alcohol and Drugs with a focus on learning
• 6 Endemic disease control agents in the city of São Paulo: a formative intervention study1
• 7. The contributions of a Change Laboratory in the implementation of public policy on socio-educational measures for adolescents in conflict with the law in the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of São Paulo
• 8. Formative intervention in a military police context after the identification of a mental illness crisis: micro- and meso-cycles of Expansive Learning
• 9 Transformative agency in designing collective occupational health services and a new form of union engagement
• 10 Intervention in safety practices at an oil refinery: planting seeds for learning
• 11 Expanded Surveillance System: preventive actions to promote occupational health
• 12 Expanding the work-related death prevention network: lessons learned and challenges in building the ZERØBITO1 tool
• 13 Promotion of agency and learning in the socio-educational system: the Change Laboratory in a Fundação CASA Attendance Center
• 14 Multilevel and integrated expansive learning to transform the model of hospital work organization model
• 15 Transformative negotiation in formative interventions for health promotion at work: challenges and learnings
• 16 Scientific metalanguage: experiences and reflections of Brazilian researchers on the Change Laboratory
• 17 Researchers’ agency in adapting the Change Laboratory to local intervention contexts: examples of hybrid approaches
• 18 Expansive learning from the perspective of the researchers
• Acronyms
• Glossary
• About the authors
• Table of contents