Ginástica laboral: uma análise do ambiente de trabalho enquanto espaço de saúde e produtividade no setor sucroenergético na Microrregião Geográfica de Ituiutaba (MG)

Abstract

This research aims to comprehend the implantation and the working of the labor gymnastics in the British Petroleum Biofuel company, which works in the energetical sugary sector of the Ituiutaba’s region. It intends to understand the relation between the gymnastic practice and the health, the worker’s life quality, and the working productivity raise. The benefits of the labor gymnastics program have been studied and reported by many authors. Those benefits are related to more disposition for the work and an organically preparation which allows the employee to be in acceptable readiness and groundwork to do the labor activities, beyond it allows more contact between the employees in the same company. To the companies all those elements advert the occupational diseases, the employee’s socialization and subjetifi cation, always searching to produce more. It is important to mention that the time destined to the sessions were something about 15 minutes, applied by coaches instead of teachers, discontinuance of the labor gymnastics in the off season period, there are no worries about the types of the exercises, ignoring the real necessities of each sector, indicate that the use of the labor gymnastics does its function only as an option, and not as an employee’s healthy central element. To aim the proposed objectives, the methodological procedures consist in knowing the theoretical referential of the library about the themes, financial, work, precariousness and the use of the health care programs of the employee through the labor gymnastics. Allied to these referentials were used data surveys of primary source, performed through the application questionnaires and interviews applied to employees of a energetical sugary sector company in the Ituiutaba’s region, beyond interviews with the physical education professionals who were responsible for leading the labor gymnastics session in the company. Among other important factors, it is worth to highlight that the labor gymnastics provides organically preparation moments to the shift’s beginning and reduced the aches and the occupational diseases, further it allows to fraternize with the sector and shifts colleagues of the company. It was possible to verify that the implantation of the program in the company obeys to the capital principles, using a program that provides more work disposition to raise the production and, consequently the profits.