Ergonomic Risk Exposure Groups: An Experience of a Mining Company in Brazil

The nature of ergonomics performs a unique role in protecting human health and preventing health risks. Improvements in productivity indices in the systems can be seen, resulting in better work conditions for people employed in production and services systems. To manage the processes of Ergonomics seeking to continuously adapt the working conditions to the psycho-physiological characteristics of the workers, by means of techniques, methods, and process controls, becomes the problematic adduced in this work, when there is no data to facilitate integration to the other processes of the company. The purpose of this descriptive study aims to demonstrate how the formation of homogeneous groups for ergonomics keeps the process dynamic through the generation of data that allows easy integration with other areas. This integration makes it possible to support the operational areas in risk management and consequently in the prevention of occupational diseases, reduction of absenteeism and incidents, providing improvements in the environment aiming at comfort, increased productivity, and better quality of life.