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Does your company have vessels operating in or heading to Brazil? Make sure your crew is fully trained to meet Brazilian safety standards.

Regulatory standards from Brazil’s Labor and Employment Ministry (MTE) establish mandatory requirements concerning health and safety at work, applying to all companies in all sectors. Non-compliance or improper implementation can generate high costs, production interruptions, inspection agency sanctions, and risk of accidents or serious illness to your employees.

In Brazil, the rules and regulations relating to oil and gas operations are complex and governed by a number of Government bodies. These include the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), the Brazilian Maritime Authority (IMO’s official representative in Brazil), the Brazilian Environmental Agency (IBAMA), and of course the Brazilian Ministry of Labor, which carries out regular inspections on all vessels operating in Brazilian waters to ensure that legal minimum standards are being upheld.

Brazilian safety standards are based on Regulatory Norms, commonly known as NRs. Each kind of operation, equipment or facility has its own individual NR setting out the working conditions and training that is required.


In Brazil, labour inspection falls within the competence of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, embodied in its organizational structure, by the Labour Inspection Secretariat (Secretaría de Inspeção do Trabalho, SIT). The SIT is responsible for establishing guidelines and for undertaking inspection activities that are implemented by the decentralized branches of the Ministry, the Regional Superintendencies of Labour and Employment (Superintendências Regionais do Trabalho, SRTE). It is the Inspectorate’s responsibility to monitor the implementation of enforcement actions and to promote research and examine proposals for legislative changes relating to the world of work. The SIT is divided into two departments: Department of Labour Inspection, and Department of Health and Safety at Work.

NR training is mandatory for every crew member involved in an activity covered by NR regulations. For example, a Chief Engineer working with electricity in pressurized vessels and confined spaces must be trained in NR-10, NR-13 and NR-33 respectively.

Under Brazilian regulations NR instructors must be qualified technicians and engineers registered with the Brazilian Engineering Council, CREA, the Government body responsible for maintaining the quality of the NR training process.

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