Adequações ergonômicas nos serviços de alvenaria, utilizando equipamentos versáteis, visando a saúde e a produtividade dos operários

Abstract

Due to the observation and analysis of masonry production, this research aims to analyze whether the use of versatile equipment should promote significant ergonomics gains, since they must be in accordance to human anatomy and physical capacity. These gains reflect not only on the worker’s health issue, but also influencing positively many other socialeconomical- environmental aspects. On the social aspect, when subtracts many workers from working accident absence, preventing them from the undesired psychological condition of uselessness, even when temporary, towards the work. On the economical aspect, which also involves a social matter, keeping the worker at his work site, on standard conditions, means a economical gains with higher productivity. Furthermore, when analyzing the economic gains, there is also the great reduction of production resources, which was measured. Besides a visible reduction of waste, which means environmental savings, since the civil construction raw material always come from environmental sources. Therefore, considering that the use of versatile equipment in civil construction works let us produce more, with less cost, and substantially reduce the waste, it is possible to infer the adoption of this practices suits to lean construction concepts.