A saúde do trabalhador na região de fronteira do RS: a experiência do diagnóstico situacional* The workers' health in the border region of Rio Grande do Sul: the experience of the situational diagnosis La salud de los trabajadores en la región fronteriza de Rio Grande do Sul: la experiencia de diagnóstico situacional

article presents the results of the partnership between NEST and the Brazilian Ministry of Health, in the COLSAT project, in the MERCOSUL context. The study aimed to conduct a situational diagnosis of surveillance systems in workers' health on the border areas of Rio Grande do Sul. Therefore, it maps 05 reference centers and the workers' health network care, reaching 27 border municipalities. The conducted diagnosis has evidenced that health surveillance practices have not added much to the workers' health demand. Thus, the predominance of action focus is health and epidemiological surveillance, and the result of some binational protocols, mostly informal, without a direction facing the impact and work injuries in the health of workers. It is expected that data may contribute to the development of strategies and surveillance activities in workers' health that address regional characteristics; in this case, the peculiarities of the border region.