Efficiency of personal protective equipment used in agriculture.
Despite the practical importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), both in production and in consumption, it is observed a main problem regarding the quality of many PPE�s used in Brazil. This study found a gap between the state of the art and the state of prevailing practices in the design of PPE�s, which main consequences affect the health of workers who use PPE in agriculture activities. The results of this study identified legal constraints of this occurrence, involving the validation of PPE designed for isolate agents, without the analysis of relevant activities and without prototypes experiments in more frequent use situation.
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Av. Horácio Macedo 2030, Prédio do Centro de Tecnologia, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. meirelles@ufrj.br
Luiz Antônio
LA
Meirelles
Marcelo Motta
MM
Veiga
Francisco José
FJ
de Castro Moura Duarte
D000383:Agriculture; D001938:Brazil; D004867:Equipment Design; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D011482:Protective Devices / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data