Análise dos custos do não cumprimento dos requisitos da NR-18 em obras privadas de médio porte

Abstract

Workplace safety is a vital theme for any production industry nowadays, wether it is in series or not, since its preventive character has direct impact on determining the success of an entrepreneurship. Civil construction is one of the activities with the highest numbers of accidents and illness related to work, however, with technological development, in Brazil, there was a significant descrease in the past years, proving some improvement conditions in this scenario. Therefore, the object of this present work is to analyze the cost of non-compliance with normative requirements of NR-18, within two midsize private constructions in the south of the country. With the help of a checklist, data collection was performed on constructions sites, non-compliance was found and, later, NR-28 was used to generate fines applied by State entities, in addition to coming up with the market value of costs to adequate. About 15% of noncompliance items was found within the two constructions, with an estimated cost to adequate non-compliance items equal to a third of the value of State fines.