Mutilação silenciosa: efeitos da exposição dos músicos a altos níveis de pressão sonora e seu reflexo no mundo jurídico

Abstract

The difficulty of recognizing the employment relationship in the labor relations (employment) of music professionals, deprives from them a big amount of rights guaranteed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), among them the additional insalubrity. Musicians in general, by the nature of their profession are exposed to high levels of sound pressure. By the beauty of the sound produced, it’s presence is not usually seen as dangerous. However, it’s medium and long-term consequences on the auditory health of the music professional is the same as that observed by workers exposed to intermittent noises without protection, which can lead to total deafness. Being present the harmful agent the health of the worker must receive the PPE (personal protection equipment) needed to neutralize these agents and, failing this he must receive the additional insalubrity. The difficulties are caused by the lack of specific legislation regarding the configuration of the employment relationship in the work of the musicians and the non existence of the specific PPE to meet the musicians' needs. This makes it impossible for the State to force the employer to provide it. The methodology used in the production of this article was the quantitative, where data and statistics were used in the analysis of the problem presented.