O conhecimento do engenheiro de obras na aplicação de itens da NR 18 em canteiros de Curitiba e região metropolitana

Abstract

The responsibility of the engineer in a building goes beyond the technique because, as all Brazilian professional, the engineer is also subject to fulfill all the list of Brazilian law in the exercise of the profession, responding civil and criminal, as the case may be, for acts or omissions that cause accidents at work. This study aims to evaluate the knowledge that building engineers with the items of the Norma Regulamentadora number 18 (NR 18) that in the event of non-compliance can cause accidents to severe severity for the workers involved in the activities. A questionnaire was applied with 20 questions, each with 3 options for answers, for 11 resident engineers of buidings which visited (there are 7 construction buildings, 2 of enlargement and 2 expansion remodelings and are located in Araucária, Curitiba, Fazenda Rio Grande and São José dos Pinhais) and for more 28 engineers of buildings that responded to the questionnaire online, totaling 39 respondents, and the themes of the questionnaire were related to excavation, carpentry and steel reinforcements, metal structures, implementation of different levels, height and roof work. From the responses obtained were constructed graphs and tables which showed 54.49% of positive responses making it clear that the professionals consulted need a deeper understanding of NR 18 in general.