Diagnóstico de cultura de segurança voltado para a gestão de segurança do trabalho numa indústria de papel

Abstract

This paper presents information about the performance evaluation of the safety management practiced in a papermaking company. This evaluation was performed through the safety culture diagnosis with the application of the Safety Level Identification Survey (PINS). This study is characterized as being descriptive and exploratory. Through qualitative / quantitative research, analyzes and interpretations of the data collected in the research evaluations were carried out, enabling the development of employee awareness actions in relation to incident prevention, acting directly in the discipline of human behavior, guided by the concept that the worker is the central element of the whole process of prevention of accidents at work. It was tried to analyze in a period of one year the evolution of the safety culture, through the practices carried out in the safety management. After the analysis of the data, it was possible to observe the concrete improvements that occurred in the safety culture through the evolution of the behavioral stages and, consequently, a reduction in the number of work incidents, collaborating for evolution and maintenance of safety performance. The results of this study prove that it is of paramount importance to carry out research aimed at the safety culture of companies, in which they demonstrate the reduction of the number of incidents through security actions that aim to diagnose and provide the evolution of the level of employee safety, considering that these actions are indispensable for the promotion of working conditions, in which they prevent or reduce the risk of incidents.