COSTA, Gerlane Alves da.
Resumen:
The work that follows is result of a study that had how finally to analyze the situation
of vulnerable of the solid wastes’ collectors of the city Pombal – PB and present the interfaces
that they have with the work, the health and the environment. Nowadays, one the most serious
problem faced by society is the waste. This problem relates directly with the population’s
growth constant, demanding more production of the food and the industrialization of raw
material, turning them in industrialized products, contributing, this way, to the increase of the
solid wastes, with disastrous consequences to the environment and to the quality of life,
mainly of workers that deal with these solid products every day. The accomplished research
is of exploratory nature with quantitative-qualitative approaches and inductive method, based
in field research, whose universe was constituted by the solid wastes’ collectors active in city
of Pombal – PB. To the methodology, after the theoretical base, was realized non-
participating observation, at another time, data were collected through the forms with 24
associated workers to the Association of Collectors of the city of Pombal – PB. The data
collection occurred in months from May to July in 2014. It was noticed that these agents,
besides contributing to the cleaning of our society, face constantly danger and risks in the
sphere of the solid products, among other factors that bring these collaborators to constant
risks in their working environment. Bearing in mind the main injuries as a result theses work
accidents are: cuts, injuries, falls, constant exposure to all the risks. Therefore, to reduce the
several risks which the collectors of recycled material are exposed is necessary the use of IPE
and the implantation of the education campaigns directed to society, to they achieve the
selective collection.
