O contexto da segurança do trabalho nas boas práticas de fabricação: estudo de caso em uma Indústria de cosméticos

Abstract

The cosmetics industry integrates a number of administrative and physical activities, both in development and production and, even though there is an inheritance of accumulated knowledge and technology, a wide range of unknown and uncontrolled variables exist that translate into serious risks to users of the products, as well as to who manufactures them. ANVISA seeks to identify these sources of risk through a book of requirements called the Good Manufacturing Practices Manual (GMP). Among other requirements, GMP describes rules applied to factories and importers of Cosmetics, which aim to mitigate risks of disease and accident development to users and production employees. This Monograph aims to make a practical application, in the field of a micro-company manufacturer of Cosmetics, relying on this standard and other analysis tools, with special focus on occupational hazards and seeking a critical and external view on the effectiveness of the measures adopted. The results, after applying a GMP self-assessment, to develop improvement actions identified in a Preliminary Risk Analysis (PRA) and an inspection carried out by ANVISA, attest to the assertiveness of the actions, as well as showing that the areas of production and Quality control are the ones that most expose employees to chemical and microbiological risks. In the same way, they showed the subjects still vulnerable and of insufficient robustness, including those of contamination to the environment.