Conforme a norma regulamentadora (NR) pertinente, do Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego (MTE), a Comissão Interna de Prevenção de Acidentes (CIPA) é composta por representantes do empregador e dos empregados. O presidente dessa comissão é escolhido pelos empregados entre os titulares eleitos.

É competência do empregador informar aos trabalhadores os riscos profissionais que possam originar-se nos locais de trabalho.

O agente ambiental a que o trabalhador ficou exposto é classificado como risco químico.

Segundo a NR pertinente, do MTE, compete aos profissionais do Serviço Especializado em Engenharia de Segurança e em Medicina do Trabalho (SESMT) aplicar os conhecimentos de engenharia de segurança e de medicina do trabalho ao ambiente de trabalho e a todos os seus componentes, inclusive máquinas e equipamentos, de modo a reduzir e até eliminar os riscos ali existentes à saúde do trabalhador.

Brazil leads in ethanol production

Brazil’s ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices strangled the economy. In response, the country’s military rulers launched an effort to free themselves from foreign oil — which then accounted for almost 90% of oil consumption — by developing innovative fuels. Ethanol made from sugar cane was an obvious candidate, given Brazil’s almost endless amount of arable land and favorable climate.

Years of work and billions of dollars in subsidies later, Brazil is the world leader in ethanol production. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing. The first ethanol-only vehicles were tough to start on cold mornings. Sugar mills responded to high world sugar prices in the late 1980s by producing more sugar and less ethanol, resulting in fuel shortages that left drivers extremely angry and badly affected the program’s reputation for reliability. By 2002, the ethanolpowered cars that were ubiquitous in the 1980s represented just 3% of the market.

But in 2003 automakers rolled out “flex-fuel” cars, able to run on ethanol, gasoline or any mixture of the two. For drivers, the new cars eliminated the need to bet on a fuel type.

Today, 70% of new car sales are “flex”, which are visibly indistinguishable from conventional cars. Only the “gasoline / álcool” label inside the gas tank lid gives them away. (“Álcool” is the local term for pure ethanol.)

Cars get fewer miles from a gallon of ethanol than from a gallon of gasohol. So consumers operate by a rough rule of thumb: so long as ethanol’s price is no more than 70% of gasohol’s, which it usually is, it makes sense to buy.

Internet: <www.usatoday.com> (adapted).

According to the text, the rise of world sugar prices in the late 1980s immediately brought about

a decrease in ethanol prices.

Brazil leads in ethanol production

Brazil’s ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices strangled the economy. In response, the country’s military rulers launched an effort to free themselves from foreign oil — which then accounted for almost 90% of oil consumption — by developing innovative fuels. Ethanol made from sugar cane was an obvious candidate, given Brazil’s almost endless amount of arable land and favorable climate.

Years of work and billions of dollars in subsidies later, Brazil is the world leader in ethanol production. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing. The first ethanol-only vehicles were tough to start on cold mornings. Sugar mills responded to high world sugar prices in the late 1980s by producing more sugar and less ethanol, resulting in fuel shortages that left drivers extremely angry and badly affected the program’s reputation for reliability. By 2002, the ethanolpowered cars that were ubiquitous in the 1980s represented just 3% of the market.

But in 2003 automakers rolled out “flex-fuel” cars, able to run on ethanol, gasoline or any mixture of the two. For drivers, the new cars eliminated the need to bet on a fuel type.

Today, 70% of new car sales are “flex”, which are visibly indistinguishable from conventional cars. Only the “gasoline / álcool” label inside the gas tank lid gives them away. (“Álcool” is the local term for pure ethanol.)

Cars get fewer miles from a gallon of ethanol than from a gallon of gasohol. So consumers operate by a rough rule of thumb: so long as ethanol’s price is no more than 70% of gasohol’s, which it usually is, it makes sense to buy.

Internet: <www.usatoday.com> (adapted).

According to the text, the rise of world sugar prices in the late 1980s immediately brought about

more consumption of ethanol.

Brazil leads in ethanol production

Brazil’s ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices strangled the economy. In response, the country’s military rulers launched an effort to free themselves from foreign oil — which then accounted for almost 90% of oil consumption — by developing innovative fuels. Ethanol made from sugar cane was an obvious candidate, given Brazil’s almost endless amount of arable land and favorable climate.

Years of work and billions of dollars in subsidies later, Brazil is the world leader in ethanol production. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing. The first ethanol-only vehicles were tough to start on cold mornings. Sugar mills responded to high world sugar prices in the late 1980s by producing more sugar and less ethanol, resulting in fuel shortages that left drivers extremely angry and badly affected the program’s reputation for reliability. By 2002, the ethanolpowered cars that were ubiquitous in the 1980s represented just 3% of the market.

But in 2003 automakers rolled out “flex-fuel” cars, able to run on ethanol, gasoline or any mixture of the two. For drivers, the new cars eliminated the need to bet on a fuel type.

Today, 70% of new car sales are “flex”, which are visibly indistinguishable from conventional cars. Only the “gasoline / álcool” label inside the gas tank lid gives them away. (“Álcool” is the local term for pure ethanol.)

Cars get fewer miles from a gallon of ethanol than from a gallon of gasohol. So consumers operate by a rough rule of thumb: so long as ethanol’s price is no more than 70% of gasohol’s, which it usually is, it makes sense to buy.

Internet: <www.usatoday.com> (adapted).

According to the text, the history of the ethanol program in Brazil shows that

this program was a reaction to the oil shortage of 1975.

Brazil leads in ethanol production

Brazil’s ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices strangled the economy. In response, the country’s military rulers launched an effort to free themselves from foreign oil — which then accounted for almost 90% of oil consumption — by developing innovative fuels. Ethanol made from sugar cane was an obvious candidate, given Brazil’s almost endless amount of arable land and favorable climate.

Years of work and billions of dollars in subsidies later, Brazil is the world leader in ethanol production. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing. The first ethanol-only vehicles were tough to start on cold mornings. Sugar mills responded to high world sugar prices in the late 1980s by producing more sugar and less ethanol, resulting in fuel shortages that left drivers extremely angry and badly affected the program’s reputation for reliability. By 2002, the ethanolpowered cars that were ubiquitous in the 1980s represented just 3% of the market.

But in 2003 automakers rolled out “flex-fuel” cars, able to run on ethanol, gasoline or any mixture of the two. For drivers, the new cars eliminated the need to bet on a fuel type.

Today, 70% of new car sales are “flex”, which are visibly indistinguishable from conventional cars. Only the “gasoline / álcool” label inside the gas tank lid gives them away. (“Álcool” is the local term for pure ethanol.)

Cars get fewer miles from a gallon of ethanol than from a gallon of gasohol. So consumers operate by a rough rule of thumb: so long as ethanol’s price is no more than 70% of gasohol’s, which it usually is, it makes sense to buy.

Internet: <www.usatoday.com> (adapted).

According to the text, the history of the ethanol program in Brazil shows that

this program progressed without difficulty from the very beginning.

Brazil leads in ethanol production

Brazil’s ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices strangled the economy. In response, the country’s military rulers launched an effort to free themselves from foreign oil — which then accounted for almost 90% of oil consumption — by developing innovative fuels. Ethanol made from sugar cane was an obvious candidate, given Brazil’s almost endless amount of arable land and favorable climate.

Years of work and billions of dollars in subsidies later, Brazil is the world leader in ethanol production. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing. The first ethanol-only vehicles were tough to start on cold mornings. Sugar mills responded to high world sugar prices in the late 1980s by producing more sugar and less ethanol, resulting in fuel shortages that left drivers extremely angry and badly affected the program’s reputation for reliability. By 2002, the ethanolpowered cars that were ubiquitous in the 1980s represented just 3% of the market.

But in 2003 automakers rolled out “flex-fuel” cars, able to run on ethanol, gasoline or any mixture of the two. For drivers, the new cars eliminated the need to bet on a fuel type.

Today, 70% of new car sales are “flex”, which are visibly indistinguishable from conventional cars. Only the “gasoline / álcool” label inside the gas tank lid gives them away. (“Álcool” is the local term for pure ethanol.)

Cars get fewer miles from a gallon of ethanol than from a gallon of gasohol. So consumers operate by a rough rule of thumb: so long as ethanol’s price is no more than 70% of gasohol’s, which it usually is, it makes sense to buy.

Internet: <www.usatoday.com> (adapted).

Refer to the above text to judge the following item.

“rule of thumb” (R.29) is related to experience.

Brazil leads in ethanol production

Brazil’s ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices strangled the economy. In response, the country’s military rulers launched an effort to free themselves from foreign oil — which then accounted for almost 90% of oil consumption — by developing innovative fuels. Ethanol made from sugar cane was an obvious candidate, given Brazil’s almost endless amount of arable land and favorable climate.

Years of work and billions of dollars in subsidies later, Brazil is the world leader in ethanol production. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing. The first ethanol-only vehicles were tough to start on cold mornings. Sugar mills responded to high world sugar prices in the late 1980s by producing more sugar and less ethanol, resulting in fuel shortages that left drivers extremely angry and badly affected the program’s reputation for reliability. By 2002, the ethanolpowered cars that were ubiquitous in the 1980s represented just 3% of the market.

But in 2003 automakers rolled out “flex-fuel” cars, able to run on ethanol, gasoline or any mixture of the two. For drivers, the new cars eliminated the need to bet on a fuel type.

Today, 70% of new car sales are “flex”, which are visibly indistinguishable from conventional cars. Only the “gasoline / álcool” label inside the gas tank lid gives them away. (“Álcool” is the local term for pure ethanol.)

Cars get fewer miles from a gallon of ethanol than from a gallon of gasohol. So consumers operate by a rough rule of thumb: so long as ethanol’s price is no more than 70% of gasohol’s, which it usually is, it makes sense to buy.

Internet: <www.usatoday.com> (adapted).

According to the text, the rise of world sugar prices in the late 1980s immediately brought about

a higher demand for ethanol-only vehicles.