In Brazil, even with all the measures taken due to the covid-19 pandemic, civil construction continues to function without major difficulties, which leads to the questioning of entities regarding the safety of workers.

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Governments of the three states with the largest population in the country (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais) have not established restrictions for civil construction until today and entities question the safety of workers.

Only states with a smaller volume of work in the civil construction sector, such as Pernambuco and Goiás, managed to paralyze activities, guaranteeing the safety of workers. Sought, none of the states wanted to manifest.

According to labor inspector Luiz Alfredo Scienza, the preventive measures taken during activities do not guarantee the safety of workers: “The construction site is not a safe environment. Construction concentrates most of the workers in certain activities, they stay together, close. How is it possible to guarantee the integrity of this worker in the face of the way this virus spreads?”

In defense of the activities, the governor of São Paulo João Doria placed civil construction in the same classification as the security and health services sectors and claimed that it is an essential activity and that the fact of not having contact with the public makes it possible to continue activities .

On the other hand, Tiago Cavalcanti, labor attorney, disagrees: “There is no minimally reasonable basis for industries, which include civil construction, to be envisaged as essential activities”.

As a result, in Rio de Janeiro, some associations of architects and engineers request an immediate stoppage of activities, justifying that there are no safety conditions for workers to continue: “If trade stopped, why shouldn't a work stoppage? If it is not possible to do the remote work, the work must be stopped. This is the case with construction in general, the only possibility is to stop”.