Energy Magazine October 2014 | Page 147

brazil
years ABCE has being delivering the Eloy Chaves Medal which awards large , medium and small electric power companies with good practices to prevent and reduce labor accidents . Brazil has the largest hydrographic basin of the world with the highest hydroelectric generation potency . More than 90 % of the Brazilian electric power generation comes from hydroelectric . ABCE has worked searching solution for the complex

ELOY CHAVES award

Created in 1980 by ABCE to reward eletric power companies all over Brazil
Due to his appreciation of workers and greater company ’ s assets that the name of Eloy Chaves ( 1875-1964 ) was chosen to name the award . The politician and businessman of the energy sector was a pioneer of social security due to the Law Eloy Chaves , of 1923 , that favored workers from São Paulo rail network and it was the basis of the INPS in Brazil ( National Social Security Institute ).
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