Redução no número de acidentes no serviço de coleta de resíduos sólidos urbanos

Abstract

The collection of garbage represents important work towards society and the environmental quality of urban centers. The public cleaning agents in the urban centers, garbage collectors popularly called Garis, carry out their labor activities in an arduous manner, subject to all types of climatic weather. Companies and corporations use the international standard OHSAS 18001 to provide elements of a more effective Health and Safety Management System - SGSST, guiding them to achieve occupational safety and health objectives. The SGSST is the set of studies planning and actions that aims to avoid and prevent the risk of accidents during the work day. This study aims to compare and evaluate the reduction in the number of accidents during the night shift of a solid urban waste collection service company that performs public cleaning in a large city in the state of Paraná between 2016 and 2017 during the implementation of the work safety management system. For the development of this work, data were collected in the urban cleaning company with the objective of identifying the actions to implement the SGSST and to quantify the number of accidents occurred during the night shift in the years 2016 and 2017. The reduction of 47% in the number of total accidents (ACA + LEVE), reduction of 63% in ACA and 6.25% in light accidents, comparing 2016 with 2017 during the implementation of the SGSST in 2017.