Perfil epidemiológico dos agravos relacionados ao trabalho em município de médio porte do sul do Brasil

Abstract

Since 2003, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted April 28 as World Day for Safety and Health at Work. According to data estimated by the ILO, 270 million work accidents occur annually worldwide, with approximately 2 million of them resulting in death (ILO, 2003). In Brazil, in recent years, the number of work accidents has been growing. While in 2001 there were just over 340 thousand work accidents, in 2007 this number rose to 659,523 occurrences (52,884 in Rio Grande do Sul), an increase of 92% in the number of work accidents. Only in 2007 were generated around 2,800 deaths from work accidents throughout Brazil, there are almost eight daily deaths, one every 3 hours. According to data from the Statistical Yearbook of Work Accidents (Brazil, 2003) it is estimated that this number reaches 1.5 million/year considering all the accidents that are studied are registered and are not (Facchini, 2005).