Open AccessJob hazard analysis in the killing area of a federal inspection slaughterhouse
Author(s) -
Adolfo Cano-Carrasco,
María del Carmen Vásquez-Torres,
René Daniel Fornés-Rivera,
José Alberto Velderrain-Jacobo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal-labor and demographic economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2524-2067
DOI - 10.35429/jlde.2020.6.4.9.15
Subject(s) - work (physics) , scope (computer science) , hazard , business , risk analysis (engineering) , occupational safety and health , statement of work , risk assessment , operations management , computer science , computer security , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , pathology , programming language
This research deals with occupational safety and health and its scope includes the conditions in which the worker must perform his tasks, the hazards to which the worker is exposed, their prevention and control. The study object is the killing area of a TIF slaughterhouse which handles the problem of reducing the number of accidents that jeopardizes the integrity of workers. The objective was to reduce the risk of the worker reflected in the number of accidents. The procedure was to Identify risks and threats in the work area, Analyze risks at work stations. Risk assessment and proposal development. The results show the risks present in the killing area in which the use of PPE is a common and most critical cause, an in-depth analysis reveals that the problem is common to the other areas, of a total of 326 incidents killing has a value of 49 and 89% of these incidents have a high probability of causing temporary loss of working capacity impacting directly to the risk premium, only 11% could cause permanent partial disability. Finally, after carrying out an inspection program, the partial result in number of accidents at the end of this research was 4 compared to the previous year with 10.