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The organizational philosophy of the companies is focused on increasing the production and offer quality products, for which they use most of its investments in these goals, leaving out the worker’s health.
Through a health diagnosis, the company will know the risks, work demands and health problems that affect their employees, derived from the working process, offering the opportunity to identify improvement on risk areas. These would allow having a new vision of costs-benefit in occupational health. By creating health prevention programs that respond to hygiene and safety deviations at the work process will allow to create controls to avoid compromising the physical and emotional integrity of the worker's.
Methods
A holistic model called ‘Verification, diagnosis and monitoring of occupational Health at the Enterprises’ has two instruments for quantitative and qualitative data collection, with the purpose of improving the occupational health at any workplace. This model was applied in an agro-biologic company from April to June, 2011, where the company’s occupational health effectiveness was quantified using indexes and control graphics.
Results
After the application of each chapter, a 57.54% global effectiveness was obtained, which means that the company has a very bad effectiveness level, in accordance with the model’s scale. This indicates that it doesn’t use programs to prevent damage in workers’ health due to the risks derived from work process.
Discussion
Carry out occupational health programs shouldn’t be seen only as legal requirements or like expensive waste actions. But like an investment to provide necessary tools to allow improvements for the workers and achieve goals in the company conditions.
This model can be used in almost any kind of enterprise which working process involves a transformation of raw material, for analyze and propose viable alternatives to survey and control the occupational health problems at the company.