Importância do uso de equipamento de proteção individual por agricultores no município de São Sepé/RS

Abstract

São Sepé city is situated in the part center-south of the Rio Grande do Sul, and has agriculture as its main source of income. Agriculture demand frequent applications of pesticides and these products can cause acute and chronic poisonings. The safe from use pesticides demands the correct use of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). In function of the high demand of pesticides in the agriculture and for the potential raised one of risk of the applications of these products, it is justified to evaluate the knowledge of the importance of the use of PPE for agriculturists in the São Sepé city. For the evaluation of this knowledge, an interview with 20 agriculturists was become fullfilled, where questions related to the profile of the agriculturist consisted, and questions how much to the use and knowledge of pesticides and agricultural PPE. It was verified that 100% of the agriculturists they use pesticides, and that although only 60% to use PPE, the great majority are conscientious of the contamination risks. The discomfort was the main alleged reason so that the equipment was not used. This reason was also pointed by diverse authors. In this way, we detach that the strategies that aim at a bigger protection of the agriculturists front to the risks of contamination for pesticides, must involve all the actors of the process, duly warned to result in inefficient actions.