Impacto de medidas de prevenção de agravos produzidos por animais da espécie canina, em carteiros da Empresa de Correios e Telégrafos do Estado de São Paulo, no período de 2000 a 2004 / Impact of measures of prevention of injuries produced by the canine species animals, in mailmen of the Company of Post Offices and Telegraphs of the State of São Paulo, in the period of 2000 the 2004

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2007

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During 1999 to 2006, the Post Offices and Telegraphs Company of the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo developed a prevention program for attacks of dogs, due to the usual risk situation displayed the company employees in domiciliary services. During 2000 to 2004, the impact of measures for injuries prevention caused by dogs was evaluated using notifications elaborated by postmen, registers and procedures adopted. The parametric statistics analysis used was the SPSS 15,0 a Windows software. The total of accidents registered in the historical series showed a positive correlation with the medians. There was an increase of 48.65% of the accidents notifications when it was compared the year 2004 with the year 2000. The number of work lost days due to the accidents presented a constant decline between the years of 2001 and 2004. The reduction between the beginning and the end series was of 8% although the comparison of the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 with 2000 has presented increases of 28.01%, 20.37% and 8.66%, respectively. The Index of Evaluation of Gravity (IEG) presented a positive correlation with the medians. When it is compared the years 2000 and 2004, the reduction of IEG was 62.50%. The results obtained has demonstrated that (1) the use of restricted information used by the administrative and operational work spheres allowed the knowledge expansion, the characterization of the harvested data property and the evidence of mangement quality that search for perfections and innovations, (2) the establishment of a methodology for distinction of the external occupational accidents causes allowed the identification of employment-related accidents produced by canine animal species in postmen, evidencing the damages magnitude and (3) the specific accidents reduction caused by dogs in postmen proved the effectiveness of the recommended prevention measures.

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carteiros occupational accidents cães prevenção dogs prevention acidentes do trabalho postmen

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