Diseño del Programa de Higiene Industrial y Recomendaciones sobre Sistemas de Control para la Prevención de Enfermedades Laborales en un Laboratorio Farmacéutico de Bogotá D.C.

Abstract

Industrial hygiene is dedicated to the control and prevention of all the risks that are generated by the different activities and processes that are carried out in a work area and that may affect the worker's health, thus evidencing the appearance of occupational diseases; For this reason, the design and implementation of the Industrial Hygiene program was carried out, with an emphasis on engineering for the prevention of occupational diseases in a pharmaceutical laboratory in the city of Bogotá. To carry out the design and implementation of the Industrial Hygiene program in the pharmaceutical laboratory, it began with a diagnosis of the current situation of the company, identifying the rules and procedures of work with a guided visit by the Engineer in charge. This allowed, the identification of the areas to intervene in the laboratory, starting with an inventory of the chemical substances that are used in the work area. Next, the safety sheets of the chemical substances were compiled, which were provided by the chemical engineer of the laboratory, and finally the implementation of the qualitative method COSHH Essentials, in which the dangerousness is identified, the tendency to pass to the environment, the amount of substance used per operation to obtain the result of the level of potential risk and then be compared with the GTC 45 and translate it to the level of deficiency in order to classify each of the chemical substances according to their level of potential risk and propose controls in the source, the environment and the individual to perform the tasks in the laboratory in a safe manner. Likewise, physical pollutants such as noise and lighting were evaluated by selecting 8 areas of the production plant where the largest population of collaborators is located to perform the respective analysis. Finally, according to the results, the corresponding improvements were made in order to provide a safe and healthy work environment for the employees.