O papel da Justiça do Trabalho na prevenção e reparação dos acidentes e doenças ocupacionais / The role of the labor courts in the prevention and compensation of occupational accidents and diseases

RESUMO

Este estudo empírico em direito analisou as decisões da justiça trabalhista para conhecer o papel que esta instituição tem exercido na prevenção e reparação dos acidentes do trabalho, bem como identificar se os avanços teórico-legislativos ocorridos, consistentes em instrumentos jurídicos disponíveis para promover a proteção da vida de trabalhadores e responsabilização dos implicados, estão sendo utilizados na prática jurisdicional. O objetivo geral deste estudo é compreender o papel da Justiça do Trabalho na responsabilização por acidente ou doença do trabalho e a prevenção de novos acidentes, bem como verificar se há condenações criminais dos responsáveis por este tipo de lesão. A unidade básica para analisar esse papel são os processos e decisões judiciais, registros tangíveis da influência que o judiciário tem exercido e de como pensa este poder. A pesquisa qualiquantitativa exploratória coletou dados por meio de consultas online ao banco de dados de jurisprudência de quatro tribunais brasileiros, dois do estado de São Paulo e dois de abrangência nacional (TST, TRT2, TJSP e STJ), com recorte temporal em decisões publicadas no ano de 2015. Os acórdãos em ações sobre acidentes de trabalho e doenças ocupacionais tiveram seus fundamentos e resultados analisados e categorizados. Foram utilizados dois métodos de análise Análise Comparativa, na qual se comparou o valor da condenação e duração do processo das decisões de igual período na justiça estadual e trabalhista e

ABSTRACT

This empirical study, on the law area, analyzed the decisions of the labor courts to know the role that this institution has done on the prevention and indemnity of work accidents, as well as at identifying whether the theoretical and legislative progress made, consistent in juridical instruments available to promote protection of life of workers and accountability of those involved, are being used in court practice. This study aims at understanding the role of labor courts on the accountability by work accident or occupational disease and the prevention of new accidents as well as check for criminal convictions of those responsible for this type of injury. The basic unit to analyze this role are the judicial processes and decisions, which are tangible records of the influence that the judiciary has played and how this sector acts. The exploratory quali-quantitative research collected data through online queries of the jurisprudence database of four Brazilian courts, two of São Paulo state and two nationwide (TST, TRT2, TJSP and STJ). This decisions were published in 2015. The judgments about work accidents and occupational diseases had their foundations and results analyzed and categorized. Two methods of analysis were used Comparative Analysis, in which the value of the conviction and duration of the judicial decisions process of the same period in state labor courts was compared, and Grounded Theory, in which the coding began inductively, from the reading of data from the judgments of all courts. The results showed that the issues of Health and Safety do not have found suitable approach in jurisprudence Brazilian labor, and the preventive protection of work accidents and occupational diseases is timidly used by legal legitimated. In labor indemnity actions, two different situations were found. The regional court confirmed the initial hypothesis of attachment to forensic reports and accountability of workers by the accidents and with small charge of convictions when the responsibility of the employer was recognized. In the nationwide court, the results indicated uniformity of jurisprudence in order to use the theory of risk (strict liability) in segments or functions with high risk, and theory of guilt (subjective responsibility) in other cases, but with presumed guilt of the employer