Diagnosis of the risk of occupational disease among outsourced workers.

Abstract

Introduction: The outsourcing of work activities has caused new and precarious working conditions, impacting the health and safety of workers, resulting in an increase in disease and accidents given the vulnerability established in the contemporary labor market.

Objectives: To identify the occurrence of risk of disease resulting from work, among outsourced workers.

Methods: Quantitative, observational, analytical and cross-sectional study, with application of the Inventário de Trabalho e Riscos de Adoecimento in 187 workers of a company that supplies and manages human resources for third parties, under contract with a Federal University, located in the state of Minas Gerais.

Results: The Inventário de Trabalho e Riscos de Adoecimento obtained the following averages for the following factors: work organization, 2.9 (standard deviation = 0.6) (critical); working conditions, 2.4 (standard deviation = 0.7) (critical); physical cost, 3.9 (standard deviation = 0.6) (severe); physical damage, 2.1 (standard deviation = 1.3) (critical).

Conclusions: The participating workers showed a good perception associated with the Inventory of Inventário de Trabalho e Riscos de Adoecimento factors, resulting in diagnoses with the presence of risks of disease and accidents resulting from work.