Análise de Riscos e desenvolvimento de Mapa de Riscos em oficina reparadora de veículos

Abstract

The increase in the number of vehicles along the years is undeniable, car manufacturers and their dealerships are not able to handle the number of vehicles on the road including their maintenance and repair, so thousands of automobile repair shops emerge to fulfill this demand. With the growth of specialized business in the automotive area, the amount of work accidents also increases, the lack of technical knowledge, procedures, and negligence contribute to this increase to be even higher. Therefore, the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MLE) makes recommendations to these companies, providing simple techniques to prevent accidents, such as the assemble of the Internal Commission on Accident Prevention (CIPA) which is responsible for the evaluation of the potential risks to the health and safety of workers through techniques such as Preliminary Risk Analysis (PRA) and Risk Mapping. Thus, the purpose of this work is to analyze and describe the existing processes in an automobile repair shop, as well as come up with current health and safety risks in the company through a case study using the Preliminary Risk Analysis technique, where the results will assist in creating a Risk Map for the establishment, in order to provide awareness of these techniques to the local workers, aiming an improvement in the health and safety conditions of workers in the sector of automobile repair. Keywords: Automobile repair shop, Work Accidents, Preliminary Risk Analysis