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    Percepção de risco e impactos ambientais: um estudo sobre o gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde
    (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2020-12-02) Santos, Ezequiel Vieira Dos [UNIFESP]; Farias, Luciana Aparecida [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo
    The management of health services waste has become a socio-environmental problem over the years, leading to the need for the creation of specific legislation, in addition to the inspection of competent bodies. On the other hand, studies have been identifying the risks to which the workers who handle such residues are exposed, as well as the difficulty in the management of this type of material, evidencing that the organizations of the health area have not been reaching satisfactory results in relation to what is recommended by the legislation and, consequently, not guaranteeing the correct management of the residues for not reaching the established goals. Such situations can lead to onerous fines, risks and damages to those involved in the handling and management of waste, in addition to bureaucratizing a process that impacts the results of the organizations. In this context, the present study presented as an objective a survey of the risk perception of the workers who carry out the handling of solid residues of health of a hospital unit that serves the specialties of maternity and emergency. This research had a qualitative character, in the form of a case study, and for the realization of the proposal, a structured questionnaire was applied with questions of free answer and questions with Likert scale (5 points), identifying the potential risks to the workers who handle the waste and how they perceived or not these risks, participatory observation of how the existing waste management programs contributed to this perception of risk and the socio-environmental impacts arising from this management system. As a theoretical reference to guide this work, the concepts of risk present in Slovic works were used. As a result of this work, it became evident that the workers' perception varies according to some factors, these being the time that the worker is exposed to solid waste handling, the structure that is provided by the organization in terms of infrastructure and supporting documentation. However, even with this variation in risk perception, the people involved in solid waste management presented previous knowledge of what they would be and the consequences that can be generated by inadequate handling. Even so, it became evident that there is a gap of knowledge between the management levels that is responsible for providing resources for the execution of tasks, and the operational level, which uses the structure provided by the management level. The understanding of the protocols, as well as the infrastructure provided, are critical factors regarding the risks employed with solid health waste, since the understanding of the protocols is subjective or not understandable by the operational level, and the structure is not adequate to the amount of waste generated by the organization.