Establishment of a risk assessment matrix for forest harvesting accidents
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https://doi.org/10.19180/1809-2667.v21n22019p249-260Keywords:
Productive process, Work safety, Techniques and forestry operationsAbstract
In the forest harvesting activity, regardless of the degree of mechanization, human labor will always be present, which requires proper planning to reduce the rates of accidents and occupational diseases that have accumulated in Brazil. In the period from 2007 to 2016, there were a total of 18,934 records in planted forest activities in the country. Despite the variety of risk assessment techniques available in the literature, the forest sector, especially the forest harvest, lacks its own process that can carry out this planning and it is easy to understand and apply. Thus, the objective of this research was to establish the matrix as a support tool to assess the level of risk, which includes the analysis of the frequency of the activity, the likelihood of the risk event and the severity of the injury, according to national parameters already observed. The construction of the matrix used as methods the study of Brazilian researchers and the British standard of occupational health and safety management. As a result, a matrix with four risk categories was obtained: low, moderate, high and critical, ranging from 1 to 36 in order to establish a risk assessment process that considers the frequency of activity and probability and severity of the accident.Downloads
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