Work and health are closely human-related concepts that form a duality both in
a traditional perspective, in which disease prevention in the workplace,
occupational health and the preventive health model take on particular
relevance, and in the social aspect, in which the preventive approach and
individual attitudes on occupational health have been the focus of special
attention. In this context, the previous knowledge of the risks to which
workers are exposed is of crucial importance, and preventive actions for the
accurate identification and quantification of those risks should be performed.
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his work aimed at knowing the risk of occupational exposure
to biological agents (bacteria and fungi) in the waste sorting industry. The
experimental component in this study comprised environmental collections in
strategically selected and distinct places waste sorting cabins, administrative
services and outdoors. Simultaneously, collections at surface were carried out
in order to evaluate the microbiological contamination and transmission of
biological risks through contact surfaces (fomites). The biological
contamination of the operators’ hands was equally assessed.
The evaluation of biological risk in surfaces and
manipulators shows the existence of considerable bacterial contamination on
the surfaces studied and in the hands of the collaborators of the productive
sector. The compared analysis of the contamination of contact surfaces with the
hands of the collaborators revealed the inexistence of a correlation pattern
between the bacterial and the fungal microflora of manipulators and surfaces.
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