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| Author(s): |
Rodolfo Andrade de Gouveia Vilela
[1]
;
Erivelton Fontana de Laat
[2]
;
Verônica Gronau Luz
[3]
;
Alessandro José Nunes da Silva
[4]
;
Mara Alice Conti Takahashi
[5]
Total Authors: 5
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública. Departamento de Saúde Ambiental - Brasil
[2] Universidade Estadual do Centro Oeste - Brasil
[3] Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Curso de Nutrição - Brasil
[4] Centro de Referência em Saúde do Trabalhador de Piracicaba - Brasil
[5] Centro de Referência em Saúde do Trabalhador de Piracicaba - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 5
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Revista Brasileira de Saúde Ocupacional; v. 40, n. 131, p. 30-48, 2015-06-00. |
| Abstract | |
Background: the sugar-cane sector is quickly expanding in Brazil in the recent years accounting for about 400 processing plants, more than a thousand support industries and generating one million direct jobs. Objective: to understand the organizational determinants that lead to the intensification of the workload and affect the health of manual sugar-cane cutters. Methods: we performed the Work Ergonomic Analysis integrated into the assessment of physiological and environmental aspects. A team of 40 sugar-cane cutters was chosen by convenience. Each worker was assessed for thermal overload, as well as the heart rate and daily production. Results: the findings showed that sugar cane manual cutting consists on average of 8 hours of daily activity, with intense work rhythms, high frequency of repetitive movements and inadequate postural requirements associated with unhealthy working conditions. Conclusion: The harmful effect of the physiological variables and the increase of cardiovascular load were demonstrated. The work pace is accelerated by managerial and organizational measures, especially the payment by production, responsible for increasing the physical exhaustion of workers and inducing them to exceed their physiological limits. It is recommended, among other measures, an alteration in the form of remuneration of the sugar-cane cutters. (AU) | |