Exposição ocupacional ao ruído e acidentes do trabalho

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Adriano [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Cordeiro, Ricardo, Gonçalves, Cláudia Giglio de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X2006001000018; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/69171
• topic: Occupational Accidents; Occupational Noise; Occupational Risks; adolescent; adult; Brazil; epidemiology; female; human; industrial noise; male; middle aged; occupational accident; occupational exposure; statistics; Accidents, Occupational; Adolescent; Adult; Epidemiologic Methods; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Noise, Occupational; Occupational Exposure

The purpose of this study was to verify whether occupational noise exposure is a significant risk factor for work accidents in the city of Piracicaba, São Paulo State, Brazil. This hospital-based case-control study included 600 workers aged 15-60 who suffered typical occupational accidents between May and October 2004 and were seen at the Piracicaba Orthopedics and Trauma Center. The control group comprised 822 workers, aged 15-60, who were also seen at the Center, and either had a non-occupational accident or were accompanying someone who had suffered an accident. A multiple logistic regression model was adjusted with work accident as an independent variable, controlled by covariables of interest such as noise exposure. The risk of having a work accident was about twice as high among workers exposed to noise, after controlling for several covariables. Occupational noise exposure not only affected auditory health status but was also a risk factor for work accidents.