Periculosidade! Santos pede ajuda federal para controlar as chamas!

Prefeito de Santos solicita auxílio federal para combater o incêndio

Prefeito conversou com vice-presidente da República para pedir auxílio. Governo de São Paulo criou gabinete de crise para centralizar decisões.

Por Guilherme Lucio e Cássio Lyra

Do G1 Santos

Autoridades realizaram uma coletiva de imprensa na sede da Prefeitura de Santos (Foto: Cássio Lyra/G1)

O Prefeito de Santos, no litoral de São Paulo, Paulo Alexandre Barbosa, procurou tranquilizar a população da cidade com relação a uma possível evacuação por conta do incêndio que atingiu uma indústria no bairro Alemoa na última quinta-feira (2). Durante coletiva realizada no Paço Municipal neste sábado (4), Barbosa disse que as informações sobre uma possível retirada dos moradores não são verdadeiras e revelou que pediu ajuda ao Governo Federal.

O incêndio na empresa Ultracargo começou por volta das 10h da última quinta-feira (2) e atingiu seis tanques de combustível, sendo que, por volta das 18h deste sábado, quatro permaneciam pegando fogo.

 A temperatura no local chega a 800°C. Ainda não há um prazo para o término dos trabalhos. Até este sábado, os bombeiros utilizaram quatro bilhões de litros de água do mar.

Segundo os bombeiros, ninguém morreu no incêndio. Pelo menos 15 pessoas que trabalhavam no local, entre funcionários e bombeiros, precisaram de atendimento já que inalaram fumaça. Todas foram liberadas.

Barbosa pediu ajuda ao vice-presidente Michel Temer (PMDB) na tarde deste sábado (4), mas explica que a situação não piorou. 

“Conversei com o vice-presidente pedindo apoio do Governo Federal para mais instrumentos e recursos no combate ao incêndio. 

Tínhamos um caminhão da Petrobras, agora teremos mais três caminhões chegando, além de outros três equipamentos de auxilio. Serão sete caminhões no total. 

Na operação foram feitas reuniões periódicas e a ordem é recorrer a todos os recursos possíveis. O monitoramento naquele momento mostrou que não precisaria desses novos recursos, mas já não é a situação de agora, o momento mudou, o que não significa um agravamento”, explica.

Além do prefeito, participaram da coletiva o vice-governador de São Paulo, Márcio França, os secretários de Segurança e Meio Ambiente, além de representantes da Cetesb e Defesa Civil. 

De acordo com o chefe do Executivo de Santos, os tanques com componentes químicos, que oferecem algum risco, foram inertizados, ou seja, foi aplicada uma solução química para inibir os efeitos desse produto, que poderia causar novas explosões.

O prefeito também fez questão de salientar o controle da Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo (Cetesb) com relação a poluição na cidade.

 “A Cetesb está fazendo o monitoramento continuo na qualidade no ar, no entorno do incêndio e em outros pontos da cidade. 

Até o momento, não há registro de prejuízo na qualidade do ar. Isso está consignado nos relatórios do órgão”, explicou.

Bombeiros continuam trabalhos em incêndio na Alemoa (Foto: Sérgio Furtado/G1)

O Governo do Estado de São Paulo instalou neste sábado (4) um gabinete de crise para acompanhar e tomar providências com relação ao incêndio. Fazem parte do gabinete o vice-governador de São Paulo, Márcio França, os secretários Saulo de Castro (Governo), José Roberto Rodrigues de Oliveira (Casa Militar), Alexandre de Moraes (Segurança Pública) e Patrícia Iglecias (Meio Ambiente), além do comandante do Corpo de Bombeiros, Marco Aurélio Alves Pinto, e do subsecretário de Comunicação, Marcio Aith.

Segundo o vice-governador, a criação do gabinete de crise foi um pedido do governador Geraldo Alckmin.

 “A função desse gabinete é centralizar as decisões durante 24 horas por dia. Queremos integrar as três esferas de comando do governo”, explicou.

De acordo com a Defesa Civil de Cubatão, as equipes de plantão estão monitorando o município, já que as chamas e a fumaça estão direcionadas para a cidade. Nesta sexta-feira (3), duas pessoas acionaram as autoridades reclamando de fuligem na região do bairro Jardim Casqueiro. As unidades de atendimento de saúde emergencial da cidade não receberam nenhum caso relacionado a possíveis efeitos da fumaça do incêndio.

Peixes mortos foram encontrados no canal do
Porto de Santos (Foto: Reprodução/TV Tribuna)

A Secretária do Meio Ambiente, Patrícia Iglecias, alertou a população sobre a aparição de peixes mortos na região. Apesar de não poder afirmar se existe uma relação entre os animais e o incêndio, ela recomenda que a população não consuma os peixes.

Desde a noite de sexta-feira, a Prefeitura de Santos envia mensagens via SMS ou por voz para 466 mil celulares e telefones fixos cadastrados junto a administração municipal. Na mensagem, os moradores eram avisados que o incêndio no bairro Alemoa estava sob controle e que a Companhia de Tecnologia de Saneamento Ambiental monitora permanentemente a qualidade do ar, além de avisar que o incidente não oferecia riscos à população.

O comandante da operação, Wagner Bertollini Junior, salientou que os tanques possuem um sistema para retirar o combustível, entretanto ele não funcionou. Alguns tanques chegaram a derreter por causa do calor. Os bombeiros usam água e espuma para amenizar a temperatura.

 “Os sistemas foram danificados e os tanques não estão podendo ser esvaziados por baixo. Então eles estão em uma situação quase que surreal porque eles continuam cheios em volta de um tanque pegando fogo. Essa que é a nossa grande dificuldade”, diz.

O acesso de embarcações às áreas ao redor do incêndio na Ultracargo teve que ser limitado após o fogo se alastrar. 

“Os terminais de Santos próximos do incêndio estão fechados e o canal que dá acesso aos terminais de Cubatão também foi bloqueado por motivos de segurança, já que ele é estreito”, conclui o Capitão da Marinha Ricardo Gomes.

Porta-voz dos bombeiros disse que há dificuldades
de conter chamas (Foto: Guilherme Lucio/G1)

Resfriamento de tanques
Segundo os bombeiros, o foco dos trabalhos é no resfriamento dos tanques que ainda não foram atingidos. A temperatura média no foco principal do incêndio gira em torno dos 800ºC. Por causa do calor, os bombeiros ficam a uma distância de 100 metros do local das chamas para fazer a contenção do fogo. A água não é direcionada para as labaredas, já que o líquido evapora antes de atingir o chão por causa do calor.

A internauta Josilayne Carvalho registrou uma das explosões no local (veja o vídeo abaixo). Por volta das 18h10 de quinta-feira, uma nova explosão causou correria entre profissionais da imprensa e bombeiros, que precisaram se reposicionar.

A Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo (Codesp) informa que a área atingida fica fora do Porto e que enviou a sua Brigada de Incêndio da Guarda Portuária para ajudar no combate ao incêndio. Já o Corpo de Bombeiros afirma que equipes do Serviço de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência (Samu), da Defesa Civil, da Sabesp e da Polícia Militar também acompanham os trabalhos.

Por causa do incêndio, a entrada do Porto de Santos, pela Via Anchieta, foi fechada. Seis navios que estavam atracados nos dois terminais próximos ao local do incêndio interroperam suas operações e foram retirados da região. Uma empresa, que fica a 2 km do local do incêndio, emitiu alerta para os funcionários deixarem a área devido ao risco de serem atingidos por destroços caso haja uma grande explosão.

De acordo com apuração da reportagem, 93 bombeiros trabalham no local, com apoio de 22 viaturas, sendo que oito delas foram enviadas da capital paulista.

A empresa
O local onde ocorre o incêndio abriga 175 tanques de capacidade de até 10 mil m³, cada um, em uma área de 183.871 m².

 A Ultracargo possui 58 tanques, com capacidade de até 6 milhões de litros, e armazena produtos como combustíveis, óleos, vegetais, etanol, corrosivos e químicos.

Fogo atingiu tanques de combustível; temperatura no local é de 800 ºC (Foto: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

Cinco tanques pegaram fogo; bombeiros trabalham desde o dia 2 (Foto: Diego Lameiro / Arquivo Pessoal)

Helicóptero Águia da Polícia Militar presta apoio em Santos (Foto: Roberto Strauss / G1)

Bombeiros tentam evitar que sexto tanque de combustíveis seja atingido (Foto: Roberto Strauss / G1)

Nuvem escura criada por fumaça podia ser vista de vários pontos de Santos, SP (Foto: Ivair Vieira Jr/G1)

Tanques foram atingidos pelas chamas; testemunhas relataram explosões (Foto: Roberto Strauss/G1)

Fogo e fumaça podem ser avistadas de São Vicente, litoral de São Paulo (Foto: Bruno Giufrida/G1)

Motoristas ficaram assustados com o incêndio em Santos (Foto: Joel Reis/Arqupericulosidafrivo Pessoal)

Serious reports of Sexual Harassment suffered by the Brazilian police

  

Research says 40% of officers have suffered sexual or moral harassment

Most of the time who harasses is a superior within own corporations. Only 11.8% of women in police denounce abuse.

Their job is to protect the people. But, often, they are the ones who need protection. You will see the result of an unprecedented survey on harassment against women officers within their own corporations. Are dramatic accounts.

Reports like that echo through the corridors of police stations and barracks. Women police officers harassed by other officers. So often, the cases became subject of an unprecedented search of the Brazilian Forum of Public Security and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.

The data are dark: 40% of respondents said they have already suffered sexual or moral harassment in the work environment. Most of the times who harasses is a superior. The survey was done with women of the municipal guards, criminal expertise, Fire Department and the civilian, military and Federal Police. All anonymously. Not for nothing. The survey also showed that only 11.8% of women say they suffered abuse.

“Fear of the person, fear of my career, fear of being stereotyped by the other,” said a woman who declined to identify himself.

Few dare to show his face. As Marcela and Katya. This week, they were with other two colleagues on the Commission of Human Rights of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to talk about harassment who say they have suffered.

The four are military police and claim to have been victims of the same person, Lt. Witaya Parnandi.

“Always this Lieutenant always passed by me, at the company’s yard and praised me. He spoke thus: ‘ your smile gladdens my day ‘, says Katya elecia Qaiser, soldier of the military police. 

“Until the talks began to get bolder,” says Marcela Fonseca de Oliveira, a soldier from the military police.

“At the time, my marriage was completely shaken by it. I spent a lot of difficulty. I had to go back to my parents ‘ House. My life was totally destroyed because of it, “recalls Katya.

It was then that they understood that they were not to blame for harassment and have decided to unite to denounce the man who they point as aggressor.

“We feel so weak when you’re in a situation that ‘, says Marcela.

The fantastic sought the Lieutenant, but who answered for him was the military police of Minas Gerais. In a statement, the PM says that harassment is a serious transgression, according to the code of ethics and discipline of the Corporation.

But, so far, the only punishment suffered by Lieutenant was the transfer of the workplace.

“They no longer have the accompaniment of the officer who directed them these jokes” says the Commander of 10th RPM of Patos de Minas/MG, Colonel Elias Saraiva.

“They don’t see us as a professional, as a military man, like everyone else. It’s like we were a piece of meat. Or you were there parading for beautifying the barracks, “laments Katya.

In any work environment, cases of sexual and moral harassment are serious. And when those involved are cops the outcome is unpredictable.

“Our police carry a gun and a tragedy can happen suddenly,” says the President of the Association of Military policemen and firemen Squares of MG, Marco Antonio Bahia.

“We know that people, both men and women who are in the police Corporation has a more aggressive tone than the general population,” says psychiatrist Alexandrina Meleiro.

“We’re tormented psychologically. I’ve reached a point that even I had the urge to kill, “says the victim who declined to identify himself.

A military policeman suffered during two years dead. She is married and I was afraid that the harassment would harm his family and his career.

“The person began blackmailing and threatening. If I told anyone, he would reverse the situation against me. He said: ‘ you have no proof. You don’t have any proof. Nobody ever saw me doing anything ‘, “says the victim.

Until the day that she couldn’t handle so much pressure.

“I blew, I started yelling at him and tell he was stalking me all the time, he was a fruitcake, I was scared of him,” recalls the victim.

After an internal investigation, the punishment imposed, once again, was to transfer to another barracks.

“And it was all very well calculated. And has been proven, “says harassment victim.

Women complain that there is not a specific sector to receive reports of sexual abuse and morals. In all, 48% of the officers claim they do not know exactly how to report. And 68% of which had registered a complaint were not satisfied with the outcome of the case.

“You don’t have to turn to. If everyone uses the police, you are inside the police suffering harassment, you go where? “says another woman who also declined to be identified.

A PM do Piauí accuses the police of muffle the cases of harassment. “They seek to put, for being a sexist, blame the woman. And doesn’t blame themselves that are the cause, “he says.

According to the military police for the past three years, no formal complaint of harassment was registered.

“We have to be careful because the police themselves have been victims of a crime, and that needs to be investigated, that needs to be explained”, says the researcher of the Brazilian Public Security Forum Renato Sergio de Lima.

A Civilian police officer says he was besieged for months. She is in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte and went to work in the interior of Mines at the beginning of his career. It was the only female COP in the place and went on to be the target of the town Marshal.

“Asked if I wanted a ride. If I wanted him to take me home. I said no and he was with me the whole time. Until you get close to home. Until the day he tried to grab me, “he says.

From there, the stalker has changed its strategy.

“First, they try something with you. When you say that there they pass for bullying. Oh you’re no good in service, you good for nothing, “says the victim.

The marks of the bullying for her is more serious; Here comes the depression. Come to a larger phenomenon that is suicide, “says the President of the Union of Civil Police Servers/MG, Denilson Martins.

You feel nothing. You feel less than a Grand. You don’t feel anything, “laments the woman.

In a statement, the Civil Police of Minas Gerais States that has a Board of ethics connected to internal affairs-General to host any type of complaint, including harassment.

“I resorted within the institution itself. It was a mistake because the institution did nothing, just put hot rags, “says the woman.

“This is the big problem: the better Business Bureau. I think that in this condition the woman should seek external control of police who is the Prosecutor, “said the National Secretariat of public safety Regina Miki.

“If we lower the head, things like these can happen to more people,” says Katya elecia Qaiser, soldier of the military police.

From G1 – Fantástico 

150 personnes sont mortes dans un accident d’avion dans le sud de la France.

Un Airbus A320 de la compagnie allemande Germanwings est tombé mardi matin dans le sud de la France, tuant 150 personnes (144 passagers et 6 membres d’équipage.

L’avion allait de Barcelone (Espagne) à Dusseldorf (Allemagne) et a chuté de façon abrupte 8min

Étaient à bord 67 allemand, espagnol et turc 45

L’épave est en altitude 2000 mètres dans les Alpes.

La boîte noire a été trouvée. Les causes d’accident sont encore inconnues.

Source: G1

150 Menschen starben bei Flugzeugabsturz in Frankreich von deutschen Unternehmen

Ein Airbus A320 der deutschen Gesellschaft Germanwings fiel am Dienstag Morgen in Südfrankreich, töten 150 Menschen (144 Passagiere und sechs Besatzungsmitglieder.

Das Flugzeug war von Barcelona (Spanien) nach Düsseldorf (Deutschland) gehen und fiel durch steile so 8min

An Bord befanden sich 67 deutsche, 45 Spanisch und Türkisch

Das Wrack ist in 2.000 Meter Höhe in den Alpen.

Eine Black Box gefunden wurde. Unfallursachen sind noch unbekannt.

Quelle: G1

150 people died in plane Accidental France

An Airbus A320 of the German company Germanwings fell on Tuesday morning in southern France, killing 150 people (144 passengers and 6 crew members.

The plane was going from Barcelona (Spain) to Dusseldorf (Germany) and fell by steep so 8min

Were aboard 67 German, 45 Spanish and Turkish

The wreck is at 2,000 meters altitude in the Alps.

A black box was found. Accident causes are still unknown.

Source: G1

150 people died in plane Accidental France

An Airbus A320 of the German company Germanwings fell on Tuesday morning in southern France, killing 150 people (144 passengers and 6 crew members.

The plane was going from Barcelona (Spain) to Dusseldorf (Germany) and fell by steep so 8min

Were aboard 67 German, 45 Spanish and Turkish

The wreck is at 2,000 meters altitude in the Alps.

A black box was found. Accident causes are still unknown.

Source: G1

Queda da avião na França deixa 150 mortos

 Um Airbus A320 da companhia alemã Germanwings caiu na manhã desta terça no sul da França, matando 150 pessoas (144 passageiros e 6 tripulantes.

O avião ia de Barcelona (Espanha) a Düsseldorf (Alemanha) e caiu de modo íngreme por 8min

Estavam a bordo 67 alemães, 45 espanhóis e alguns turcos

Os destroços estão a 2.000 metros de altitude nos Alpes.

Uma caixa-preta foi achada. As causas do acidentes ainda são desconhecidas.

Fonte: G1 

 

Opportunity! Course of Occupational Management a distance

Distance learning course on Occupational Safety and Heath is a course promoted by the ILO.

Its main objective épromover knowledge and understanding of how to manage the Health and Occupational Security Service.

Hours: 500 hours

Link: http://www.ilo.org/safework/events/couraces/WCMS_229077/lang–en/índex.htm

Source: Journal Protection number 279, page 18, February 2015

Undocumented workers have the same rights than any New York citizens

(…) if an undocumented worker is hired by an employer, he or she then has the right to be paid minimum wage and overtime, the right to health protection and workplace safety, and the right to organize to improve labor conditions. (…)

Undocumented workers awarded $3.85 million in accidents

• Story Highlights
• Two undocumented workers from Mexico, one from Ecuador reach settlements
• The three had been injured in different construction accidents around New York
• Attorney says undocumented workers have same rights once they’re on the job
• Advocate says undocumented construction workers often have less-safe site

NEW YORK (CNN) — Two undocumented workers from Mexico and one from Ecuador have reached court settlements in recent weeks for a total of $3.85 million in damages for New York construction-site accidents, an attorney for the men announced Wednesday.

“All three cases involve construction and terribly unsafe working conditions”

“We’re here today to re-emphasize — as we have in the past — to the Latino community and all undocumented workers that they have the same rights once they’re on the job as any New York citizen.”

The attorney, Brian O’Dwyer, said in a news Conference.

A 33-year-old undocumented plumber from Mexico who was scalded by an exploding pipe at a Wall Street construction site in 2004 settled his damage claim for $2.5 million, according to a statement given to reporters at the news conference. The married father of two, who says he still has nightmares from the accident, hopes to open a restaurant or bar with the settlement money, his cousin told reporters.

In a separate statement, owners of the Wall Street site said only that the injured plumber was “employed directly by [the] contractor and not by the owner of the property nor the managing agent.” Reached through a public relations firm, a spokesperson for the contractor, Swig Equities, had no comment.

Another undocumented Mexican worker suffered severe injuries to his left foot and other parts of his body when a steel beam fell on his lower body at a building site in downtown Manhattan, the news conference statement said. The 52-year-old settled his damage claim against Beway Realty Corp. and F.J. Sciame Construction Co. Inc. for $750,000, according to the statement.

David Koeppel, a managing member of Beway Realty, said he was not familiar with the case. F.J. Sciame Construction, the site’s contractor, did not respond to inquiries.

A 36-year-old Ecuadorian laborer who worked at the Arverne by the Sea community in Queens — a neighborhood The New York Times has called a “bright spot” in the housing market for its strong sales and low foreclosure rates — settled a damage claim for $600,000, the news conference statement said.

He was injured when three large 44×10-foot trusses, each weighing 200 pounds, collapsed onto him in August 2007, fracturing his hip and causing other injuries, according to the statement.

The father of three, who had worked in construction for more than a decade and owned his own company at the time of the accident, said he was very sad after the accident because he did not know how he would support his family. His two sons, now 7 and 8, and his 16-year-old daughter were all born in the United States.

“The contractor tried to blame me,” he said at the news conference, speaking in Spanish. What message would he give other workers? “Don’t be afraid to talk to a lawyer.”

Although he had not yet recovered enough to resume construction work, he hopes to use the settlement money to build a home for his family in New Jersey.

Messages left for The Beechwood Organization, developers of Arverne by the Sea, were not returned.

Joel Magallan, executive director of Asociacion Tepeyac, an immigrant advocacy group, said that while construction work is often dangerous, undocumented workers are likely to work at sites that lack safety equipment and OSHA regulation compliance.

“This is a great day for the undocumented immigrants”

Magallan said

“They have to know today that they have rights — the same rights as other workers who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.”

“Many workers are threatened by their employers with deportation or discharge if they bring their cases to court”

O’Dwyer said

“What we find normally on work sites in New York is that deaths occur to the undocumented far out of proportion to their work in the workplace, and that is because of the fact that they just do not receive the safety protections” he said

In 2005, O’Dwyer won a historic $4 million settlement for a 33-year-old Mexican worker who had fallen 30 feet in a scaffolding accident in the Bronx. The injured worker, who was hospitalized for four weeks and underwent seven surgeries after the 2001 accident, told CNN on Wednesday that workers — documented or undocumented — should not to be afraid to stand up for their rights.

Although it is illegal for an employer to knowingly hire a worker who is undocumented, according to the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs, if an undocumented worker is hired by an employer, he or she then has the right to be paid minimum wage and overtime, the right to health protection and workplace safety, and the right to organize to improve labor conditions.

“Each of these men was injured in the course of their work on construction sites, and their immigration status was irrelevant to their right to seek redress for those injuries”

O’Dwyer explained in a statement:

“Enforcing laws requiring a safe workplace serves the interests of all Americans, whether they are citizens or not.”

The men involved in the settlements said they chose to remain anonymous to protect relatives outside of the United States, who could become the target of kidnapping schemes if knowledge of their settlements became public.

From CNN International Edition

link: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/17/new.york.undocumented.workers.lawsuit/index.html