Levantamento de riscos ocupacionais em uma empresa de comunicação visual

Abstract

The branch of visual communication grows every year, much of this due to the importance related to the marketing and advertising sector of the enterprises and the consequent association of this with the public's attention conquest. Parallel to this growth also arise more jobs, enterprises, equipment, tools and machines, giving margin to the emergence of problems related to work accidents. The present study aimed to identify and analyze the occupational hazards present in the workplace of a visual communication company, besides suggesting control measures. All sectors of the workplace were characterized and informal conversation was held with the employees of each function performed in the company. Ergonomic, mechanical, physical and chemical risks have been identified in the place, mainly in the operational sector, and a series of control measures were listed, some specific to each risk and others that have a field of action generic, aiming at improving the safety and health conditions of workers during the performance of labor activities.