Programa de prevención de accidentes laborales a los recolectores de basura del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal del Cantón Riobamba. Chimborazo noviembre 2014 – abril 2015

Abstract

It was proposed to a Prevention Program of Occupational Accidents in workers as garbage collectors GAD Municipal del canton Riobamba; the type of development research is a descriptive cross- sectional non- experimental, for which the diagnosis based survey application was performed, which includes: demographic social characteristics, knowledge, occupational hazard and practices. It was performed data collection at 101 workers, who were tabulated using the SPSS program. Within results found in terms in terms of knowledge was found that 89% did not know about the importance of personal protective equipment, 56% do not know biosafety, practices indicated that only 32%use personal protective equipment, in occupational hazards 70% are exposed to different risks in their work. For this reason was the need for conducting trainings on topics according to the requirements of the workers which were: use of personal protective equipment, biosecurity, prevention of occupational accidents, occupational risk factors and first aid. In conducting the evaluation considerable improvement was found in terms of the results obtained.