Protocolo para registros de acidentes em laboratórios de ensino e pesquisa

Abstract

Teaching and Research laboratories are workplaces, therefore they offer occupational risks to human health. This study intended to develop a protocol with the aim of registering and assessing risks in teaching and research laboratories, involving technicians, graduation students, graduated students and researching professors (users). Aspects as objectivity, clarity and practicality were also evaluated by the users as using the protocol. Thus, the Protocol for Recording Accidents in Teaching and Research Laboratories (PRA) gathered elements from materials used in work safety, as the Corlett Diagram and the Risk Map, among new elements. Despite the acceptance of users who rated the PRA, some considerations and comments have been identified, as well the need to make it a self explanatory material. On the other hand, most users also rated as “good” and mainly qualified for its objectivity, accessibility, visual quality and facility to use. Although it is known that zero risk is a utopian goal, we must seek methods that reduce and prevent accidents and, thereunto, the manuals creation becomes important, standards and tools for quality assessment, control and correction for the biosecurity system.