Estudo do absenteísmo por doença entre trabalhadores de uma indústria do Estado do Amazonas

Abstract

This research aimed to make analysis of the occurrences of the most common diseases that affect the workmen absenteeism in a transforming area in the Amazonas industry, such as we Thermal Transfer Ribbon (TTR) . Absenteeism is an event related to the employee's absence from their work activities, causing negative impacts on the productivity and profitability of organizations. It is very important to analyze diseases which most isolate workmen from their working post, for it gives us a very clear idea of such absenses and so, can help the organization to take actions to reduce such occurrences. For this purpose it as carried out a field research to collect informations through from 187 medical certificates which were given to the workmen for 12 months period and registered by a report on Microsoft Office Excel basis. Afterwards, it were checked out all the collected data, in order to identify the main turning away reasons from the jobs, diseases which showed casual connections with the work, or rather epidemiologically related to the National Classified Economic Activity (CNAE) from the surveyed industry, according to the Technical Epidemiologic Nexus of Social Security (NTEP) and Accidentary Prevention Factor (FAP) and finally calculated the indexes of frequency of sick leave rates and returning people, average duration of absences and finally, all expenses spent during those absent days. The results showed the diseases that most caused absences were uterine leiomyomas (23.38%), convalescence after surgery (18.41%), impingement syndrome (16.92%), varicose veins without ulcer or inflammation (7.96%), pain in the thoracic spine with physiotherapy treatment and vascular headache with the same percentage of incidence (7.46%), right / left syndrome (6.47%), low back pain and conjunctivitis also with the same percentage (4.48%) and wrist and hand injury caused by work accident (2.99%). The results confirmed that the absenteeism disease are episodes that occurrences frequently in the studied industry, impact on its productivity and may, according to the methodology of the NTEP increase the FAP and consequently the rates for payment of Social Security.