Análise ergonômica da produção de morango em dois sistemas de cultivo

Abstract

This work presents an ergonomic analysis in two systems of strawberry cultivation in the region of Curitiba-PR. The benchtop production system is a relatively new technique in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, developed in Rio Grande do Sul about 20 years ago. This cultivation system allows the farmer to work in upright posture, unlike the mulching system developed in the USA in 1950, which has brought many advantages such as: decreased occurrence of soil diseases, less use of fungicides, provides better control of bush-competition, productivity increase. It was verified that the farmers approved the bench system claiming as main advantage the fact of working in upright posture. This posture is more appropriate to the worker in this system, with fewer complaints of pain. The study also allowed us to verify that there is a vacuum in the supervision of family work due to the interpretation of the type of link between people and the work structure. It was observed that there is a legal provision for supervision, but it is necessary to organize the inspection structure in the field, which needs to be based on an approach different from that existing in the industrial and urban sector, that is, based on a fine and a fine. The legal provision is found in Regulatory Standard nº 31 for the definition of a policy to monitor occupational accidents occurring in the field in all segments, which includes family farming. The inspection in family agriculture must exist but taking into account a preventive and even evolve and help in the development of production methods offered to the rural producer by official and private technical assistance.