Avaliação dimensional das cadeiras e das mesas para escritório disponíveis para comercialização no Brasil com base na norma regulamentadora 17

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the commercialized office desks and chairs available in Brazil based on the regulatory standard number 17, correlate with the perception of the workers and identify possible ergonomically harmful postures due to office desks and chairs that are improper to the worker stature. In order to carry out this study, the following methodology was applied: informal interview with 13 employees from administrative areas, application of the diagram of painful regions, Workplace observations, online research with 204 workers from various companies and segments, research in physical and online stores of office desk and office chairs currently available in the Brazilian market, Dimensional measurements of the sample of the office tables and office chairs commercialized in Brazil and Comparing NR17, NBR 13962 and NBR 13966 with measures of anthropometric proportions available in the literature. The majority of seats traded meet the standards compared with, but the tables, even within standards NBR 13962 and NBR 13966, represent a small percentage of the population analyzed compared to the anthropometric ratios cited in the literature. Suggestions were made for the improvement of the furniture analyzed for NR 17 and for the health and wellbeing of the worker.