TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Occupational accidents among ambulance drivers in the emergency relief
JO  - Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
A1  - Takeda, Elisabete
A1  - Robazzi, Maria Lúcia do Carmo Cruz
SP  - 439
EP  - 445
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
N2  - We analyzed the occurrence of occupational accidents (OA) among ambulance drivers in Emergency Relief (ER), with a view to disclosing the types of events and their causes. A quantitative-qualitative study was carried out through the interview of 22 workers in a city in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The subjects were male, between 36 and 40 years old (40.9%), married (81.82%), with uncompleted primary education (40.9%), individual (90.9%) and family (54.55%) income between two and four Brazilian minimum wages, not performing any other paid occupation (45.45%). The majority of the OA were typical, due to an excess of exercises and vigorous and repeated movements (42.11%) and aggression through body strength and other means (26.33%). The OA occurs mainly because drivers carry out tasks that do not suit their professional formation.     <p></p>    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0104-1169
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -