SANTOS, João E. G.; FERNANDES, João C.; SANTOS FILHO, Abílio G.; BORMIO, Marcos R.
Résumé:
The Brazil blunts as the largest consumer of agrotoxic of Latin America and that the
indiscriminate use of those products in the farming is so much a preoccupying factor for the rural
worker's health as for the consumer end of that that is planted, as well as for the environment, this
work sought to do a analisys of safety's conditions in the activities developed by rural workers in the
accomplishment of the cultures of coffee, orange, pineapple, tomato and sugar-cane in the Center West from São Paulo State. For such two questionnaires were used, that was applied in two stages,
during the periods from 1997 to 1999 and 2000 to 2002, respectively. Most of the interviewees of the
analyzed cultures said to know the intoxication dangers for agrotoxics, except for the workers of the
sugar-cane culture. In the second stage, the results obtained in the field analisys they showed that
44,5% of the interviewees of the analyzed cultures don't know what is EPI (Individual Protection
Equipment); 90% affirmed not to receive any training type to apply agrotoxics; 74% don't use EPI;
57,8% of the agrotoxics are stored in specific deposits for all the analyzed cultures; 35,6% of the
operations of agrotoxics application use motorized costal pulverizers (except for the culture of the
sugar-cane). The results point the need of a larger understanding of all involved them in the
production, commercialization and handling of the toxicant products, as well as on the discard and
withdrawal of your packings.
