Custos relativos à engenharia de segurança do trabalho: estudo de caso em obra de construção civil

Abstract

Currently, accidental issues reached high rates in Brazil, being the fatalities causes suffering to the families and harm employers. The aim is demonstrate, with this study, the impact of these costs in prevention programs and occupational safety engineering inside civil construction, the price formation of products or services, avoiding fines, penalties and damages caused by the noncompliance law, and also identifying what are the best guidelines for company profits and employees. Also, it aims to identify costs that affect the acquiring individual protection equipment and collective protection equipment, maintenance of machines and equipment’s. Therefore, explains the incidence of workplace safety in payroll charges, terminology and classification of costs, and presents a study case in jobsite, in the region of Curitiba. By this search, we show that the costs of workplace safety could be low, when compared with values of the global enterprise. We conclude that the costs of prevention programs and occupational safety engineering inside civil construction are equivalent to approximately 7% of the total cost of the enterprise.