Implementação de filtros de manga para o abatimento dos aerodispersóides no ambiente portuário

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to present how the private port company "TPX" that handles soybean has adopted and implemented the installation of sleeves filters for the reduction of aerodispersoids in their atmosphere. Due to the increase in dust because the high volume of soybean storage and handling, the company found considerable risks to employees' health, such as the development of problems to the respiratory system through inhalation of soybean dust. The interest in adopting a containment measure aims both at issues related to occupational health safety and economic issues of the company, as the shortages generated by employees are causing the decrease in operational capacity. Through meetings adopting the dynamics of Brainstorm with a multidisciplinary company’s team was possible to determine which strategy to be used to solve the problem. In the background, Benchmarking that is a field research was conducted in the competition, in order to obtain information on what measures were adopted to contain the dispersion of dust by companies in the same segment. The company team "TPX" with the information received has adopted an PDCA Cycle (Plan, Do, Check and Act), to ensure the final and ideal solution. This tool made it possible to carry out a schedule of step-by-step activities, making each sector responsible for activities corresponding to his area of activity. Among the activities carried out by the team are market research, installation of equipment, preparation of new procedures, training of the interested parties and finally development of control means with the objective that the team can guarantee the physical functioning of the equipment. Following the philosophy of the PDCA cycle, after the installation of the equipment, the port will continue to carry out air quality monitoring tests conducted annually by certified outsourced companies in order to carry out future comparative analyzes.