Saúde e segurança no trabalho : análise do perfil de gestores de serrarias localizadas ao norte de Mato Grosso

Abstract

Recently the work of a manager is a theme that plays an important role on universities and organizations, the process of taking decisions is part of humans’ everyday. The management is a taking-decision process that utilizes a set of methods to reach a goal. The forestry industry on the Amazon forest is now on a growing season, trying to improve itself investing, mainly, on the purchase of machinery and personal training. This paper aims to profile sawmill managers currently working at Sinop, Mato Grosso. The applied methods was an exploratory quali-quantitative research based on a data collection about the health and safety of workers and the environmental conditions at work on sawmills. It is possible to notice the need for changes on the management, qualification and improvement of the sawmill managers on the forestry sector at Mato Grosso. It is suggested that the managers should work directly as supervisors on the prevention of risks on workers’ safety monitoring the use of individual protection equipment, identifying improvements on the machinery and on the care of workers’ ergonomics and health. The retrenchment of the costs through the prevention of accidents at work is seen as a great alternative to reduce the expenses directly connected to accidents, improvements on the machinery’s maintenance, ergonomics aspects, life quality and environmental quality.