ACIDENTES DE TRABALHO NA CONSTRUÇÃO CIVIL: Análise da incidência na cidade de Piumhi, Minas Gerais

Abstract

In Brazil, among the economic activities best known for the high levels of work accidents is civil construction, most of these accidents occur in small and long-term works, the most frequent causes of accidents being related to falls, contact with tools, machines, impact by object, foreign body, among others. In this sense, the present work was elaborated with the objective of quantifying the occurrence of work accidents in the civil construction sector in the city of Piumhi - Minas Gerais. For this, a case study was developed due to the need to understand the phenomena that enable the occurrence of these accidents in the city under study. observation in loco, and through a questionnaire applied to professionals in the area, a total of ten civil works were visited and twenty-six employees of the city's construction companies were interviewed. The results obtained show that about 0.001% of the population of Piumhi suffered some type of work-related accident between 2018 and 2019, and that during this period, accidents in the construction sector accounted for 30% of all accidents that occurred in the city. in the same period. It can be concluded that the construction companies in Piumhi do not offer, implement, or adopt any accident prevention program, which puts the safety of workers at risk.