O Contexto da adoção de medidas de proteção a COVID-19 em uma indústria de alimentos em Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

In 2020, the world suffered from the covid-19 pandemic, which turned into a health crisis capable of slowing down economic growth. The first cases of covid-19 were detected in Wuhan, China, and soon spread around the world. Initially, there was no necessary knowledge of how to deal with the virus, showing the fragility of human beings in the face of this health crisis. With the advance of the pandemic, there was a need to create biosafety measures to reduce contamination, mainly so that essential economic activities were maintained. In this scenario in Brazil, the food industries were considered to be essential and had to implement covid-19 security protocols to protect their employees and comply with government requirements. The general objective of the study was to analyze the measures adopted by the industry in the implementation of covid-19 prevention protocols. Specifically, it was to describe the changes that occurred in the routine due to covid-19 in the administrative and production areas of the Food Factory – fictitious name of the company – and to show how the relationship between the company and the control and regulatory bodies took place. The study was carried out in a food company in Mato Grosso do Sul. The research carried out is exploratory and documentary, with qualitative analysis, to obtain the data, the company's biosafety protocol model was analyzed and semi-structured interviews were carried out with the main responsible for implementing and enforcing the measures. The results found are that the implementation of security measures showed the organization's ability to adapt to rapid changes in its processes, in addition to the importance of management in objective guidance for employees and in communication with agents external to the organization such as the health secretaries and sanitary surveillance that inspected compliance with the measures.