O trabalho em unidades de beneficiamento de tomate: movimentação manual de cargas.

Abstract

The present study had as specific goal to identify, analyze, comprehend and classify the labor conditions in which the workers of Tomato Packing Houses (TPH) were involved with the Load Handling Transportation (LHT). To carry out this work a preliminary study was made in a TPH of Campinas region which, for the specific item of LHT, presented low level of technology, i.e., most of the packing process did not have automated mechanisms and, so, the use of physical force was necessary. For a better comprehension of the TPH working structure, the method of Working Ergonomics Analysis (WEA) was applied, what made possible the identification of the process phases where the LHT was predominant. For the analysis, comprehension and classification of the LHT, the NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health – USA) equation method was used. This method made possible to calculate and quantify the recommended limit weight in successive tasks of load lifting, and also to identify the load and unload phase of the trucks in the TPH had weights above the recommended limit of the NIOSH.