Conhecimento e percepção dos supervisores de produção de uma montadora de veículos sobre a saúde auditiva no trabalho

Abstract

The changes occurs in the world of work, sush the changes into de taylorist/fordist models by flexible models and the advents of new technologies, didn’t converted in a less precarious condition, more human, either ensures the physical integrity of workers inserted in this environment. This study has the general goal the knowledge analysis and the perception about hearing health by production supervisors workers in a carmaker at MRC – Metropolitan Region of Curitiba. Method: This study was conducted in FAMEC (Faculdade Metropolitana de Curitiba) where the interviewees attended a in company extension course where it was decided to develop a cross-sectional study, with qualitative and quantitative characteristics developed in two steps. In the first step was applied a structured protocol (n=41) and the questions was and the questions were categorized in Occupational Hygiene, Program Documentation, Protector Headset, Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), Hearing Conservation Program (HCP) and Staff and Working Environment. In the second step the interviews were conducted with the focus group technique (n=11) among survey participants divided into two groups: group 1 (senior students) and group 2 (beginners). We sought to investigate the perceptions of these managers facing hearing health of their direct reports, the production operators. Results: The members of both groups surveyed had his early career in the industrial environment, with the company average time is 7.26 years to G1 group and 5.28 years to G2 group, the function average time of the G2 is 2.31 years superior to the G1 being 1.92 years and it was found that there is no significant difference between groups. As the perception of the auditory health of direct reports, both groups know that they can help to prevent NIHL, however, unaware of the internal rules of hearing loss prevention, and there was no significant difference between the groups surveyed. Conclusion: from the results presented related by the knowledge and perception of individuals in the workplace there is noise and preventive actions in hearing care into the company need improvement.