Segurança do trabalho: análise dos principais riscos de acidentes e medidas de prevenção em três unidades armazenadoras de grãos e insumos agrícolas no estado do Pará

Abstract

With growing agricultural production, there is a need for improvements in the logistics and storage of products, involving multiple activities, associated with the particularities of the environment where they are carried out. The processes involving these environments are in line with work safety routines, due to the risks to which the worker is exposed, in some cases even fatal, it is necessary to have technical knowledge of the processes and follow the regulating norms - NR. For this reason, the aim of this work was topoint out the main risks of accidents in operations carried out in Storage Units for agricultural products and the main safety mechanisms adopted to minimize these risks, using a bibliographical and documental approach as a methodology, adding to the application of information collection techniques, such as structured interviews and application of online forms, where questionnaires were applied in a conventional agricultural storage unit in the northeast region of Pará, with growth potential, and in two of the main grain storage units in the southeast region of Pará, the two units demonstrated to have preventive work safety measures, pointing out the main risks within its units,and despite the technical control, there have already been accidents within the units and reports of possible accidents avoided by complying with standards and technical knowledge about possible risks.