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Efficiency of personal protective equipment used in agriculture

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Meirelles, Luiz Antônio | Veiga, Marcelo Motta; | de Castro Moura Duarte, Francisco José

Affiliations: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Av. Horácio Macedo, 2030, G-209, Prédio do Centro de Tecnologia, Cidade Universitária, 21.941- | Strategic Management Department, Business School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rua Voluntários da Pátria, 107, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22.270-010 | 914Environmental Health Department, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Rua Leopoldo Bulhões, 1480 / 503 – Manguinhos, 21.041-210 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ – BRASIL

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: meirelles@ufrj.br

Keywords: personal protective equipment, agriculture, design

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0129-14

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 14-18, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

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

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