PONTES, R.S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8603602866295551; PONTES, Rayane Da Silva.
Résumé:
The Odontological activity represents risk to environmental and social area requiring an
effective Environmental Management, once the waste disposal has the potential to create
significant environmental and health impacts. About it the present paper is aimed to study the
environmental aspects and impacts caused per odontological activity on the Health Stations
through the tool Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA). The theoretical foundation
provides a discussion around environmental issues, corporate environmental management,
FMEA and the Odontology Department. The FMEA model proposed per Vandenbrande
(1998) was used as theoretical basis. Concerning the Methodology, the research is classified
as exploratory and descriptive, using the case study method. Primary and secondary data
have been collected, as primary sources were used semi structured interviews and direct
observation, and as secondary data had been used: dental services reports, articles and
studies about the dental industry. As result, the procedures studied and their different stages
presented potential of impacts ranging from very low to very high in respect the intensity of
risk. From 29 impacts related in all procedures, 16 of them showed low intensity, 1 with very
low intensity, 3 with medium intensity, 5 with high intensity and 4 with very high intensity.
Although, most of the environmental impacts end up not occurring in accordance with the
actions adopted, the management of the health station under study should be concerned with
the impacts that showed high and very high intensity, especially those related to restoration
activity.
