Reconhecimento de espaços confinados em uma indústria de alimentos.

Abstract

There is a great difficulty in the recognition of confined spaces, because it depends on a complex evaluation of environments, which ends up leaving the workers exposed to risks due to the lack of controls and information. Due to such difficulties and concern for the worker’s integrity, the objective of this work was to perform a case study in a food industry in the Curitiba region, applying a table of recognition of not disturbed confined spaces. The table was used to register, in an organized way, the main requirements of classification of a confined environment as foreseen in the current legislation. The table was prepared based on Regulatory Standard number 33. The result found with the analysis of 13 environments, divided in seven groups according to the characteristics of use and the application of the methodology was classification of 54% among the environments as confined spaces. Although the table follows the normative requirements, there were differences in classification when comparing them with the information of the company and also the lack or unavailability of safety information in an accessible way to the workers.