"Estudo da ocorrência de acidentes entre trabalhadores de uma indústria frigorífica do Estado de São Paulo" / "A study on the occurrence of accidents among workers at a meat packing industry in the State of São Paulo"

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Meat packing work is marked by repetitive activities; intense work rhythm; environments with inadequate levels of illumination, noise and temperature; presence of dust; small spaces and frequent handling of cutting instruments. These characteristics make this activity exhausting and dangerous and, hence, an interesting object of study, but is socially relevant due to the large quantity of agriculture and cattle industries in the country. We carried out a non-experimental, descriptive, quantitative and epidemiological study, based on secondary data, aimed at analyzing the occurrence of Work Accidents (WA) at a meat packing industry. The research was carried out at a meat processing and packing industry located in the interior of the State of São Paulo. The target population included Work Accident Notifications (CAT) registered at the Specialized Occupational Safety and Medicine Service (SEESMET) in 2004 and 2005. Data were collected through document analysis of the CAT, identifying the sociodemographic characteristics of the accident victims, characterizing work accidents and calculating the cost of the work days lost due to the accident occurrence. We found 137 WA, 134 (97.8%) of which were typical and 3 (2.2%) commuting accidents. Victims were 135 workers active in different company units, with the following characteristics: workers were between 18 and 73 years old, with 56 (41.5%) professionals between 25 and 40 years old; 108 workers were men (80%); 59 (43.7%) were married; average monthly salaries amounted to R$ 572.74 reais. Most accident victims were either meat packing aids (62.2 %) or general service aids (9.6%) and a majority of accidents, that is, 65.7%, happened at the poultry unit. One hundred two (74.5%) of the total number of accidents caused sick leave. The greatest WA frequency (47.4%) was found during the morning shift. As to the causal agent, work instruments represented 42.3% of the events, followed by the environment (39.4%). One hundred eighteen of the WA (86.1%) were responsible for a sick leave of up to 15 days and, in 2 cases (1.5%), for more than 16 days. Seventeen (12.4%) accident registers did not contain any information in this respect. The most frequent diagnoses were superficial head injuries and other specific ankle and foot injuries (16.02%), diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (10.9%); external causes, exposure to mechanical forces, accidents with respiratory risks, exposure to electrical current, extreme temperatures (8.03%), superficial injuries involving multiple body regions (2.19%). As to the costs incurred due to the loss of work days caused by the WA, we identified that the company lost an estimated amount of R$ 20,427.67 Reais during the study period.

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acidente de trabalho work accident indústria de alimentos enfermagem health occupational saúde ocupacional meat packing industry nursing

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