Mapa de riscos

ARTIGO ARTICLE 497

Ícones para mapas de riscos: uma proposta construída com os trabalhadores 1 Icons for occupational risk maps: a proposal developed with workers 1

Luiz Augusto Facchini 2 Marinel Mór Dall’Agnol 2 Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa 2 Rosângela da Costa Lima 2

1 Este artigo integra o Projeto Trabalho e Saúde na Indústria da Alimentação de Pelotas, que tem recebido apoio das seguintes instituições: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq, Organização Panamericana da Saúde – OPAS, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – FAPERGS e Fundação Jorge Duprat Figueiredo de Segurança e Medicina do Trabalho (Fundacentro). 2 Departamento de Medicina Social, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Pelotas. C. P. 464, Pelotas, RS 96.001-970, Brasil. [e-mail] http://www.ufpel.tche.br/~me dicina/strab/strab.htm

Abstract The methodology known as the workers’ model was used to design risk maps in a study performed in the food-processing industry in Pelotas, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The various types of occupational risks were initially represented by geometric figures, with a size gradient to represent intensity. Joint investigation of these icons showed that they had little meaning for the workers. In addition, risks from a same group (physical, chemical, etc.) but with different impact on health were grouped, thus missing the specificities of exposure. As an alternative, and starting from workers’ own risk perceptions, a set of risk icons was developed. The study was done in three steps involving sixty workers, who proposed and selected the most suitable symbols, which were subsequently printed on stickers using silk-screen so that the workers could glue them on the risk maps. Each risk is represented by one icon, and intensity of exposure is defined by color. This paper presents the icons and the process involved in designing them. Key words Icons; Working