Os agentes de risco ocupacional: suas influências na precarização do trabalho de motorista e cobrador, do gênero feminino, no transporte coletivo urbano de Uberlândia-MG

Abstract

The proposal of this study came from the contrast between the female drivers and collectors of urban collective transportation sickness, from Uberlândia (MG) in comparison to the sickness of the male indivudual performing the same function. It had started from the premise that the driver´s profession and collector are socially recognized as male activities, but nowadays, women have assumed professions like these in an increasingly frequent way. In this sense, based on our general objective, which is the illness´comparison between the two genders, other more specific are also contemplated, namely: describe that drivers and collectors of collective transportation are sick; Identify the main risk agents of the driver and collector profession; (PCMSO-NR7) and the Environmental Hazard Prevention Program (PPRA-NR9). The objective of this study is to identify the environmental risk prevention strategies for workers' health and safety, which are contained in the Occupational Health Medical Control Program. The results of this research demonstrate that occupational risk agents and working conditions, pertinent to the professions studied, are responsible for the sickness of female workers and that, in percentage terms, they have a lower rate of illness compared to males. The necessity to know about diseases is based on the perspective of promoting a discussion about the lack of more effective prevention actions, based on existing public policies that minimize the sickness of workers, since the work process can also cause harm to health. So, this research is quantitative, resulting in the formation of a database, and, in order to make it effective, the population studied was 100% of the drivers and collectors. The data were collected in September 2016, provided by the city's collective transportation companies, about the illnesses that caused them to leave work, from January to August of 2016, identifying the diseases through the ICD. Data were analyzed according to the worker´s gender. This work is about the worker´s health, identifies that the employee sickness goes beyond the environmental, chemical, physical, biological, mechanical and organizational elements, considering the need for effective implementation of public policies, not only for the worker´s health, but also for the collective health promotion.