Occupational hazards in urban cleaning: street sweeping

Abstract

The health occupational area establishes a challenge for the nurse, then it´s necessary to develop studies to detect occupational risk factors that each kind of activity can provide. This study intends to identify the occupational risks that the street sweepers are exposed by handling diary with the urban trash. The data are collected by interview with schedule constructed by the authores. The results showed that even if this occupational activity is considered of low level risk, the cuttings and contusion wounds were responsable for the absent time of workers their functions, in a period between zero to tem days.