Identificación y evaluación de riesgos laborales y elaboración de un Plan de Prevención de Riesgos en el Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas de la provincia del Azuay

Abstract

The “Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas” (MTOP) as a public entity, develops activities such as planning for maintenance, improvement, rehabilitation, reconstruction, as well as the opening of new roads, managing and/or supervising projects on each road; it demands compliance with the National System of Road Infraestructure for Land Transport law, which is responsible for implementing policies, standards and procedures for the development of road projects in Ecuador. Its employees are exposed to all kinds of high risk factors such as: biological, due to the pandemic caused by the SARS CoV2 virus; physical, due to inadequate lighting according to the calculation of the monitoring equipment; ergonomic, owing to postures taken in office positions, and for jobs in the “taller/mecánica” area, all this given by the ROSA, OWAS and REBA methods; mechanics, mainly because of work carried out on roads within the jurisdiction of MTOP and psychosocial, thanks to the “Ministerio de Trabajo de Ecuador” questionnaire resulting in the main factors of high risk being labor harassment and hard working conditions. Different corrective measures for each risk factor were raised, ranging from the source, following the means of transmission, to reach the person. It is proposed to implement “active pauses” for each task or job. Finally, an Occupational Risk Prevention Plan was created as determined in each evaluation phase.