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b'On April 7th is celebrated the World Health Day. In order to mark this date, this episode will discuss a very important issue: occupational, health and safety. Health and safety measures at work play an important role on workers quality of life, and their capacity of having a steady and sustainable livelihood. And this is even more crucial for informal workers, often left out of regulations that assure them a safe work environment.\\nIt was thinking about this questions that the Cuidar Project came about. Seeking to understand the challenges waste pickers face in Brazil, Sonia Dias and Ana Carolina Ogando undertook an empirical qualitative research-action project for two years at waste-pickers cooperatives.\\n\\nSonia dias is a sociologist by training and holds a PhD in political science at the federal university of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and is currently Wiego\\u2019s Waste Specialist. \\n\\nAna Carolina is Wiego\\u2019s Research Associate and also holds a PhD in political science at the same university.\\n\\n*Cuidar Project Page http://www.wiego.org/cuidar-project\\n\\n*Cuidar Project: Summary Report http://www.wiego.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/Dias-Ogando-Project-Cuidar-Health-Mapping.pdf\\n\\n*WIEGO\\u2019s page on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) https://www.wiego.org/ohs\\n\\n*WIEGO\\u2019s page on Waste-pickers http://www.wiego.org/informal-economy/occupational-groups/waste-pickers\\n\\n*Joint ILO/WIEGO report Cooperatives Meeting Informal Economy Workers\\u2019 Child Care Needs (2018) https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/cooperatives/publications/WCMS_626682/lang--en/index.htm\\n\\n*WIEGO\\u2019s page on cooperatives http://www.wiego.org/wiego/wiegos-work-cooperatives\\n\\nOur theme music is Focus, from A. A. Aalto (Creative Commons)'