The accidents and the retirements of port workers in Santos-SP

• Grant number: 11/18296-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health
• Principal Investigator: Maria Do Carmo Baracho de Alencar
• Grantee: Jéssica Moscatelli Amaro
• Host Institution: Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade (ISS). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Baixada Santista. Santos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The port modernization brought some improvements to the port work conditions, but this has been a sector of great prevalence of retirements of work, and there are few scientific studies related to them. The objective of this study is to investigate the relations in between the retirements of port workers (functionary), and work conditions and organizational aspects. This study is exploratory and descriptive, with quantitative and qualitative data. The subjects (n=250) are entailed to port operators´ employees and to the port worker´s syndicate - SETTAPORT, and are also retired of work. A questionnaire is going to be used to evaluate the work conditions and organizational aspects, to obtain information of factors, causes and circumstances that induced the retirement; after that it will be realized almost-open interviews that are going to be recorded and transcribed with the objective to investigate detailed information next to the subjective living of the workers. The interviews will be analyzed as categorical content (Bardin, 2010). The intention is to present the results in scientific events, publish them in indexed scientific magazines and also divulgate them next to syndicate and the port operators' employees. (AU)