Gestão da segurança do trabalho em uma indústria de bebidas destiladas baseada na norma OHSAS 18001:2007

Abstract

Management policies go beyond simple compliance with basic legal requirements, and so organizations have adopted actions that emphasize their commitments to other values perceived by the market. The health and safety of people has been a relevant topic for companies. The number of accidents and the global culture already practiced in other markets meant that the organization of the study did not concentrate its efforts solely on competitiveness and profit, but on the safety of its employees. In order to structure the management of the security area, the company envisaged as an opportunity to parameterize its actions with the OHSAS 18001: 2007 standard. Through this scenario the main objective of this work is to analyze the practices of Occupational Safety Management, based on the OHSAS 18001: 2007 standard, which reduced the number of accidents due to leave in a distilled beverage industry. With the general objective established, a bibliographical research was carried out that gave an understanding of basic concepts of work safety, health and safety management system and a deepening of the norm. The methodology was structured in a survey of all the actions of the company and with application of the PDCA could compare the practices of the company in relation to the items of the standard. In order for the company not to restrict itself only to traditional methods, it has gradually applied a health and safety management system in its processes, which has been a very important instrument for improving working conditions and reducing accidents. The results showed that the actions implemented by the company brought significant improvements in the work environment, evidenced by the reduction of occupational accidents due to leave, from 13 records in the fiscal year of 2013 to 01 case in the last fiscal year analyzed, 2018.