Proposta de ações para melhoria de cultura de segurança de uma empresa paraibana

Abstract

The interest and awareness of companies about Occupational Safety and Health are increasing. Health and Safety Management Systems have been implemented in order to achieve a continuous evolution in this area. In addition to providing considerable economic gain to the organization and improving its competitiveness in the face of the market, investments in Health and Safety at Work (HSW) result in expanded worker life quality and productivity, among many other benefits. Monitoring of performance indicators, process creation and its standardization are not enough to eliminate a company's accidents if the safety culture is not strengthened. In this context, the safety culture has been well spoken among the companies that aim to become a reference in HSW. Therefore, the present work focus on proposing improvement actions that target to develop safety culture, provided by the following stages: (i) contextualization of the HSW theme and as well as safety culture; (ii) definition of the research method; (iii) analysis of the accidents occurred through the last 2 years in the company studied; (iv) identification of the points related to risk perception and safety culture; (v) presentation of how the safety perception survey was performed; (vi) proposal for actions to enhance safety culture based on both the research outcome and the perception of the consultants. Intending to continue the process studied here, the company will generate plans of actions taking into account each action pointed in this paper.