Although safety climate research has increased in recent years, persisting conceptual ambiguity not only raises questions about what safety climate really is—as operationalized in the literature—but also inhibits increased ...

The construction industry, more specifically the heavy construction subsector, contributing to the socioeconomic development of the population, but causes negative impacts for the consumption of natural resources and the ...

This study aimed to analyze, through a case study and the application of a questionnaire, what are the main reasons why construction workers do not use personal protective equipment, which also reveals which PPE's exist ...

BACKGROUND: The current body of research on insecticide use in Peru deals primarily with application of insecticides offered through Ministry of Health-led campaigns against vector-borne disease. However, there is a gap ...

Background and Objectives: Individual, work-related and organizational factors may favor adherence to safety practices in the work environment, preventing exposure to biological material among health professionals. Based ...

The study has the main objective to identify the inherent occupational risks of the gravedigger profession. The utilized methodology was interview with professionals; which survey questionnaire were divided in groups: ...

Professionals linked to the building site, same those that don't act in the segment of Safety of the Work, know that the lack of the use of Equipments of Individual Protection (EPI's) is cause of most of the fatal ...