TY - CHAP
T1 - Safety management plan for equipment used in working at heights
AU - Bastos, Sybelle M.S.L.
AU - Vasconcelos, Bianca M.
AU - Parisi, Suellem Attila
AU - Zlatar, Tomi
AU - Junior, Béda Barkokébas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The study aimed to present an occupational safety management plan for equipment used in working at heights to guide companies to comply with legislation, and, consequently, reduce the percentage of accidents at heights. First it was conducted a bibliografic review. Afterward, a field research was carried-out in a company leasing equipment for working at heights. A check-list was used to verify the compliance of the studied company with normative items on equipment and control measures. Finally, a quantitative and qualitative analyzes was carried-out, and developed a safety management plan for equipment used in working at heights. The results revealed that neither one sample was in accordance with all the considered items, evidencing that the companies have risks of accident. Finally, the management plan for working at heights and the usage of equipments has an important function of alerting, directing, increasing awareness and guiding companies to comply with the legislation, and can be incorporated into equipment leasing companies, as in companies which have these types of equipments used in working at heights.
AB - The study aimed to present an occupational safety management plan for equipment used in working at heights to guide companies to comply with legislation, and, consequently, reduce the percentage of accidents at heights. First it was conducted a bibliografic review. Afterward, a field research was carried-out in a company leasing equipment for working at heights. A check-list was used to verify the compliance of the studied company with normative items on equipment and control measures. Finally, a quantitative and qualitative analyzes was carried-out, and developed a safety management plan for equipment used in working at heights. The results revealed that neither one sample was in accordance with all the considered items, evidencing that the companies have risks of accident. Finally, the management plan for working at heights and the usage of equipments has an important function of alerting, directing, increasing awareness and guiding companies to comply with the legislation, and can be incorporated into equipment leasing companies, as in companies which have these types of equipments used in working at heights.
KW - Construction
KW - Equipment used in working at heights
KW - Safety management plan
KW - Work at height
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062898822&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-14730-3_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-14730-3_1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85062898822
T3 - Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
SP - 3
EP - 11
BT - Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -