Armchair guards

insecurity that dehumanizes requires cooperation for a safe work environment

Abstract

The excessive focus of cash transport companies on the protection of their clients’ assets, given the growing and generalized climate of public insecurity, has had consequences on the physical and mental health of workers who work as security guards in armored vehicles, regardless of the occurrence of robberies. Reports brought frequently in labor lawsuits show that, in fulfilling intercity routes for collection and supply of ATMs and banking institutions, these workers are routinely subjected to degrading situations such as having their meals and physiological needs in plastic bags and pet bottles inside of the armored cars themselves, given the impossibility of stopping on highways due to the lack of safe structures (shelters/restaurants). This article proposes to analyze the situation and, based on a review of the specialized literature (bibliographic research) on the work environment, propose measures that, in addition to reflecting on the daily lives of these professionals, contribute to equating in the most rational way possible the fulfillment of its tasks in line with the principles of human dignity, the social appreciation of work and free initiative and with the commitment to promote decent work.