Análise do programa de prevenção de riscos ambientais em relação aos trabalhos realizados em altura no canteiro de obra

Abstract

Civil construction is a branch that employs a large number of workers, on several work fronts and also one of the divisions where most accidents occur. In working at height places, the lack of prevention from falling is one of the major accident causes, most of which leads to death. The present term paper presents an analysis of how the prevention of accidents at height places in construction sites with less than 20 workers is done through the Prevention of Environmental Risks Program – PERP. For the development of the academic paper, research on documents made available on websites of governmental organizations and civil construction institutions, as well as manuals prepared by construction industry entities and in the PPRA of seven companies was done. On those documents was analyzed how prevention against falls is addressed on the following topics: in the compulsory application of training, the use of Personal Protective Equipment – PPE - and Collective Protective Equipment - CPE. The conclusion is that although protection against falls is an addressed subject, the theme is not very thorough, most PERPs lack information about prevention, limiting itself to the compulsory use of basic PPE against falling, leaving aside the subject in depth.