O meio ambiente de trabalho e as normas de proteção: medicina e segurança nas operações em minas de calcário

Abstract

Mining can have impacts on workers' lives, in addition to the generally known environmental ones. The main objective of this study was to identify workers' health and safety in their work environment in mining, in a mining company in the city of Vila Nova do Sul, RS. Along with this, analyze and verify the current legislation, which seeks to mitigate these impacts. These are themes that impact a particular niche. To identify these aspects, the research was based on the bibliographic review of some authors that deal with topics such as: Medicine and Occupational Safety in Mining; Environmental Management in Occupational Medicine and Safety in Mining and Individual Protection Equipment. We used as a framework, interviews with the collaborators who work directly in the extraction of the ore, pointed out as the area that most frequently occurs in the mineral sector in Brazil. The significant numbers considered in the results show that there is a need for changes in some sectors of the company, such as in the communication sector, since many of the obstacles are due to the failure of this item. The questions were based on the theoretical, quantitative and qualitative references, multiple choice questions and open to answers. In the obtained results it was possible to reach the objectives proposed by the work, which involves the work environment in the mineral sector, the environmental management in this work environment and the efficiency and use of personal protective equipment.