Análise Ergonômica do Trabalho: Um Estudo em um Hospital Filantrópico Localizado na Região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The hospital environment has characteristics that can provide a series of risk factors and stressors, which are capable of culminating in the development of more serious problems, related to the health of workers. Ergonomics is an important area of knowledge that aims to integrate working conditions and workers, covering scientific knowledge related to human beings and work. Through an Ergonomic Work Analysis (AET) this study aimed to propose improvement actions for the Nutrition sector of a philanthropic hospital. As a result, the existence of situations that could cause damage to the health of workers was obtained, mainly due to postural issues and environmental factors at work. The application of ergonomic tools was crucial for proposing improvement actions, showing that the hospital nutrition and dietetics sector needs to review some working methods and make corrections soon. It was observed that the hospital sector has numerous possibilities for future studies related to ergonomics and, as a conclusion, the application of Ergonomic Work Analysis for the hospital nutrition and dietetics sector proved to be important, as it enabled the proposition and recommendation of improvement actions related to working conditions in order to make them more efficient and safer.