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Safety Management Plan for Equipment Used in Working at Heights

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The study aimed to present an occupational safety management plan for equipment used in working at heights to guide companies to comply with legislation, and, consequently, reduce the percentage of accidents at heights. First it was conducted a bibliografic review. Afterward, a field research was carried-out in a company leasing equipment for working at heights. A check-list was used to verify the compliance of the studied company with normative items on equipment and control measures. Finally, a quantitative and qualitative analyzes was carried-out, and developed a safety management plan for equipment used in working at heights. The results revealed that neither one sample was in accordance with all the considered items, evidencing that the companies have risks of accident. Finally, the management plan for working at heights and the usage of equipments has an important function of alerting, directing, increasing awareness and guiding companies to comply with the legislation, and can be incorporated into equipment leasing companies, as in companies which have these types of equipments used in working at heights.

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  1. Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Sybelle M. S. L. Bastos, Bianca M. Vasconcelos, Suellem Attila Parisi, Tomi Zlatar & Béda Barkokébas Junior

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Bastos, S.M.S.L., Vasconcelos, B.M., Parisi, S.A., Zlatar, T., Junior, B.B. (2019). Safety Management Plan for Equipment Used in Working at Heights. In: Arezes, P., et al. Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14730-3_1

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