[Analisys of work-related accidents and incidents in an oil refinery in Rio de Janeiro].
Accidents in the chemical industry can have serious consequences for workers, communities, and the environment and are thus highly relevant to public health. This article is the result of an occupational surveillance project involving several public institutions. We analyze 800 work-related accidents that resulted in injuries, environmental damage, or loss of production in 1997 in an oil refinery located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The methodology was based on managerial and organizational approaches to accident investigation, with the European Union reporting system as the reference. The results highlight various limitations in the process of reporting and investigating accidents, as well as a certain hierarchy of accidents, with more attention given to accidents involving loss of production and less to those resulting in injuries, particularly among outsourced workers.
de Souza
Carlos Augusto Vaz
CA
Coordenação Geral de Vigilância Ambiental em Saúde, Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia, Fundação Nacional de Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, DF, 70058-902, Brasil. carlos.augusto@funasa.gov.br
de Freitas
Carlos Machado
CM
D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D015984:Causality; D019652:Extraction and Processing Industry; D006801:Humans; D010578:Petroleum; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D017132:Workplace
D010578:Petroleum