Avaliação dos sintomas dolorosos do trabalhador da indústria: um comparativo das linhas de produção e trabalho com manejo de cargas

Abstract

The present study attempts to evaluate complaints of pain /discomfort muscle of 156 workers at a food industry in Campos Gerais region - PR. We sought to identify which workplace creates more pain to the employee: occupational activity on production lines or work with management charges. For this, we applied a questionnaire where the worker should mark where I had pain after working hours. This questionnaire was to identify, through a drawing of the human body, which rated the region of the body was in pain after working hours. The results in both work activities had specific data: in production lines, the incidence of pain and injuries were in the upper limbs, especially the shoulder region, with over half of the evaluated presenting complaints. In the trucking industry, the concern must be related to the lumbar region, which also showed more than half of the individuals with symptoms of pain.