BakgrundFysisk aktivitet är en grundläggande faktor för att främja och bevara hälsa hos alla  människor. En aktiv livsstil minskar risken att utveckla kroniska sjukdomar och förbättrar människans fysiska och psykiska välmående. I dagens samhälle har stillasittande blivit till en folkhälsoutmaning och därför spelar sjuksköterskor en viktig roll med att arbeta hälsofrämjande och påverka den negativa hälsotrenden. SyfteSyftet var att sammanställa sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av fysisk aktivitet som hälsofrämjande arbete. MetodDenna studie är en litteraturöversikt. Litteraturundersökningen resulterade i 17 artiklar som söktes fram via databaserna Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) och Public Medline (PubMed). ResultatSjuksköterskor såg sig ha ett viktigt ansvar att arbeta hälsofrämjande och att ge egenvårdsråd gällande fysisk aktivitet. En betydelsefull faktor var att sjuksköterskan hade god kunskap för att adekvat kunna informera och motivera patienter till hälsofrämjande åtgärder. Utmaningar innefattade verksamhetshinder såsom tidsbrist, hög arbetsbelastning, ogynnsam sjukhusmiljö samt brist på resurser. Samtidigt delgavs positiva erfarenheter som självintresse, fungerande lagarbete och goda verktyg. SlutsatsSjuksköterskor upplever positiva erfarenheter när de framgångsrikt lyckas arbeta hälsofrämjande trots förekomsten av verksamhetshinder. Genom att förstärka sjuksköterskors kunskap och tillgång till resurser kan de förbättra sin förmåga att främja fysisk aktivitet till sina patienter. Detta skulle i längden kunna bidra till att vända den negativa hälsotrenden som finns idag. / BackgroundPhysical activity is a fundamental factor in promoting and preserving health for all individuals. Exercise reduces the risk of developing chronic diseases and improves both physical and mental well-being. In today’s society, sedentary behaviour has become a  public health challenge and nurses play a vital role in promoting health and influencing the negative health trend. AimThe aim was to assemble nurses’ experiences of physical activity as health-promoting work. MethodThe study is a literature review. The literature search resulted in 17 articles retrieved from the databases CINAHL and PubMed. ResultsNurses felt an important responsibility in promoting health and to provide self-care advice regarding physical activity. An essential factor was that the nurse had good knowledge to adequately inform and motivate patients to health-promoting actions. Challenges included operational obstacles such as time constraints, high workload, unfavourable hospital environment and lack of enough resources. At the same time, nurses highlighted positive experiences such as self-interest, effective teamwork, group training and access to good tools. ConclusionsDespite the presence of operational obstacles, there are positive experiences where nurses successfully engage in health-promoting activities. By improving nurses’ knowledge and access to resources, they can improve their ability to promote physical activity. Ultimately, this could contribute to reversing the negative health trend prevalent today.

Under 1990-talet skedde stora förändringar inom vård och omsorg i kommunal verksamhet på grund av kommunallagsändringen vilket innebar omorganiseringar, nedskärningar och effektiviseringar. Detta bidrog till sämre arbetsmiljö särskilt inom vård och omsorg. Belastningsskador och stress ökade. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka enhetschefers möjlighet att utöva närvarande ledarskap samt deras och medarbetares upplevelser av ledarskap och psykosocial arbetsmiljö och hälsa. Två äldreboenden i Umeå kommun ingick i studien i sammanlagt tre fokusgruppsintervjuer, en med enhetschefer och två med medarbetare totalt 12 deltagare. En abduktiv kvalitativ innehållsanalys genomfördes. Resultatet utmynnade i sju teman och visar att enhetscheferna upplevde att de inte har någon möjlighet att vara närvarande, att det är hög arbetsbelastning för både enhetschefer och medarbetare, att det upplevs saknas socialt stöd för enhetschefer och mellan enhetschef och medarbetare, att det brister i kommunikationen, delaktighet och rättvisa. Hälsan påstods vara bättre för enhetschefer än medarbetare men trivseln är bra i båda grupperna. Närvarande ledarskap ansågs i dagsläget svårt att utöva då det saknas både tid och stöd och det finns brister i den psykosociala arbetsmiljön som påverkar medarbetarnas hälsa negativt. / In the 1990s, major changes took place in elder care in municipal activities due to changes in the municipal law which led to reorganizations, downsizing and streamlining. This contributed to poor working environment especially in health care and musculoskeletal disorders and stress increased. The purpose of this study was to examine the unit managers’ opportunity to exercise present leadership and how the psychosocial work environment is perceived by unit managers and their employees. Moreover, how leadership is perceived by the employees and how psychosocial working environment and health is investigated. Two nursing homes in Umeå municipality were included in the study. In total, three focus group interviews were conducted, one with managers and two with employees, 12 participants in total. An abductive qualitative content analysis was performed. Seven themes were found in the material. These show that the unit managers perceive that they have no opportunity to be present, and that both managers and employees perceive a high workload, lack of social support for unit managers and between unit manager and employees, and lack of communication, participation and justice. Health was perceived to be better among unit managers than employees. However, job satisfaction was reported to be good in both groups. Present leadership is in the current situation difficult to exercise due to lack of both time and support and there are deficiencies in the psychosocial work environment affecting employee health negatively. / Hälsofrämjande arbetsplats

This empirical study explores if, and how, religion and spirituality are relevant subjects for those experiencing mental distress in Northern Ireland (NI) and how, if at all, the subject is engaged with in mental health social work practice. Although there is some controversy in United Kingdom based research regarding the apparent benefit of religion and spirituality within mental health, service user research and literature suggests its importance within recovery. Literature on religion, spirituality and social work practice suggests the need to examine the social and political processes which persist around this subject in social work practice (Henery, 2003; Wong and Vinsky, 2009). This examination is appropriate given the role of religion within the political conflict in NI, the impact of the conflict upon social work practice (Campbell et al, 2013), the high incidence of mental ill health in NI and the apparent role of religion and spirituality within mental distress. This study considers how mental health social workers may engage with this subject within their practice not only as an aspect of service users’ identity but also within post conflict Northern Ireland. The study methodology and design drew upon narrative theory and grounded theory. I interviewed twelve mental health service users and twelve mental health social workers, and half of the participants from each group also took part in a follow-up telephone interview. All of the participants were invited to bring an object which expressed what religion and spirituality meant to them. Analysis explored the views and experiences of mental health service users and social workers about religion and spirituality, within specific aspects of the wider social field. Service user and social worker participants’ accounts suggested that whilst the role of religion and spirituality within mental distress was recognised, its inclusion in mental health social work practice was marked with questions of legitimacy. Some of these questions were explicitly framed within the conflict, whilst others were less so. The study found that although religion was associated with politics, sectarianism and violence, its role, and that of spirituality, as an aspect of identity and meaning-making, appeared to be underdeveloped. Two key findings are of particular note. 10 Firstly that service user participants had their own ‘hierarchy’ of religious and spiritual expression, which on occasion appeared to result in their being critical of other service users’ expressions. Secondly, some service users preferred to keep their spirituality to themselves as a strategy of empowerment. In addition the study also found that service users viewed the mental health professional relationship as focusing upon medical aspects of their care, for example physical health and medication management, with no scope to explore religion, spirituality and mental distress. Thus questions of legitimacy focused around the notion of privacy and whether talking about religion and spirituality within the mental health service user and social worker relationship was too sensitive, given its association with sectarianism. Furthermore, mental health service users were concerned about how a disclosure of religion and / or spirituality within mental distress would be viewed by the mental health professional: would it be viewed as indicative of deteriorating mental health? Overall the study identified a significant gap between how service users draw upon spirituality and / or religion within mental distress, and the space given to this within mental health social work practice. This gap is due to a myriad of factors ranging from the social worker’s biography, to wider issues around how religion and spirituality are conceptualised in contemporary society. This study also highlights the continuing impact of the Northern Ireland conflict on frontline social work provision. There is a need for policymaking to acknowledge the ambivalence that exists around spirituality and religion in mental health social work practice due to the conflict and other relevant factors. Finally, support is needed for practitioners and service users to acknowledge this aspect of mental well-being in a manner that gives service users choice about its inclusion in their mental health care.

A perícia psicológica tem ocupado lugar de destaque na Justiça do Trabalho, pois vêm aumentando os casos de afastamento no trabalho em decorrência de transtornos mentais. Quando um trabalhador ingressa com uma ação trabalhista, pleiteando o recebimento de uma indenização por ter adquirido uma doença mental no trabalho, o juiz é obrigado, por força de lei, a nomear um perito judicial para fazer a investigação do nexo de causalidade entre a patologia mental e o trabalho. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar como são feitas essas perícias psicológicas, optando-se pela realização de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas com peritos judiciais e juízes do trabalho, além de pesquisa bibliográfica sobre o tema. Para a interpretação dos dados, a pesquisa se utilizou da técnica análise de conteúdo que comporta três fases fundamentais: pré-análise, exploração do material e tratamento dos resultados. Os dados revelaram que os juízes do trabalho estão insatisfeitos com a qualidade das perícias psicológicas, pois consideram os laudos deficientes, sem fundamentação, condicionais e inconclusivos. De acordo com os juízes, as perícias psicológicas são produzidas pelos médicos numa espécie de linha de produção, por meio de um único encontro com o reclamante, estando recheadas de textos padronizados e desprovidas de uma análise mais aprofundada da pessoa do trabalhador e do ambiente de trabalho. Os juízes também afirmaram que não existem bons profissionais da área da saúde interessados em realizar a perícia psicológica na Justiça do Trabalho. Já os peritos judiciais disseram que o valor dos honorários periciais é muito baixo, o que inviabiliza que sejam realizadas várias entrevistas com o trabalhador e visitas à empresa, comprometendo a qualidade dos laudos. Para os peritos, os honorários periciais deveriam ser fixados em um montante justo e proporcional ao trabalho a ser desenvolvido, como também serem pagos, ainda que parcialmente, antes do início da investigação pericial. As entrevistas demonstraram que os peritos, tanto médicos quanto psicólogos, têm pouco conhecimento na área da Saúde Mental e Trabalho. Também revelaram que o trabalho pericial está voltado essencialmente para uma análise diagnóstica, ou seja, para a verificação acerca da existência ou não de um transtorno mental no trabalhador, não havendo uma investigação aprofundada das condições de trabalho e da relação destas com a subjetividade do indivíduo. A pesquisa concluiu que para se compreender o vínculo entre o transtorno mental do trabalhador e as condições de trabalho seria necessário que o perito judicial averiguasse como se deu a relação entre a subjetividade do indivíduo e o contexto de trabalho. Caberia ao perito avaliar o limite subjetivo de cada trabalhador para as pressões sofridas no ambiente de trabalho, quais foram suas ações adaptativas e em que momento se operou a ruptura, instalando-se o adoecimento mental. Para isso, seria importante que o perito tivesse formação na área da Saúde Mental e Trabalho a fim de adquirir competências técnicas para melhor investigar como o modo operativo do trabalho afeta os processos subjetivos dos trabalhadores / Psychological expertise has had great importance in Labor Court, since cases of work leave due to mental disorders have increased. When a worker takes legal action against his/her employee, claiming compensation for having acquired mental illness at work, the judge is required, according to the law, to designate a judicial expert to investigate the causal link between the mental pathology and the job. The aim of the present research was to investigate how these psychological inquiries are performed, carrying out individual semi-structured interviews with judicial experts and labor judges, as well as bibliographic research about the subject. Interpretation of the data was performed using the technique of content analysis, which involves three fundamental phases: pre-analysis, material exploration and treatment of results. The data revealed that labor judges are unsatisfied with the quality of psychological inquiries, due to the deficiency of the reports that have no foundation, are conditional and inconclusive. According to the judges, psychological inquiries are performed by doctors in an automatic way, with only a single meeting with the claimant. The reports are filled with standardized texts and without a deeper analysis of the individual and the workplace. The judges also stated that good health professionals are not interested in performing psychological inquiries in the Labor Court. On the other hand, judicial experts have said that their wages are very low, therefore it is not possible to carry out several interviews with the employee and to pay visits to the company, affecting the quality of the reports. For the experts, expert wages should be proportional to the amount of work to be performed, but also be paid, at least partially, before the beginning of the investigation. The interviews showed that the experts, both doctors and psychologists, have scarce knowledge about mental health and work. They also revealed that the work of the experts is focused essentially on a diagnostic analysis, only to verify if the worker has or doesnt have a mental disorder, without a deep investigation of the conditions of work and with the subjectivity of the individual. The research concluded that in order to understand the link between the mental disorder of the worker and his working conditions, it would be necessary that the judicial expert investigate the occurrence of the relationship between the subjectivity of the individual and the work context. It would be the responsibility of the expert to evaluate the subjective limit that each worker has towards the pressure in the work environment, what were his adaptive actions and when the rupture happened, causing mental illness. It would be essential that the expert has specific training in the area of mental health and work in order to acquire technical skills to better evaluate how the operative mode of work affects the subjective processes of the workers

Bakgrund: Alla människor har rätt till en trygg och hälsosam arbetsmiljö. Hälsan påverkas oundvikligen av olika faktorer i arbetsmiljön som verkar för eller emot hälsan. Att sträva efter att skapa hälsofrämjande arbetsplatser är därför en viktig del av den nationella och globala folkhälsopolitiken. Tidigare forskning, som främst är av kvantitativ karaktär, har visat att det finns frisk- såväl som riskfaktorer i sjuksköterskors arbetsmiljö. Det behövs dock fler kvalitativa studier som belyser sjuksköterskornas egna upplevelser av frisk-och riskfaktorer för att kunna identifiera förbättringsfaktorer i arbetsmiljön och utveckla det framtida hälsofrämjande arbetet. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa sjuksköterskors upplevelse av frisk-och riskfaktorer i sin arbetsmiljö, med fokus på förbättringsfaktorer. Metod: En kvalitativ studie har genomförts och en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med en induktiv ansats användes för att analysera data från de fem sjuksköterskor i Mellansverige, som intervjuats med hjälp av en semistrukturerad intervjumetod. Resultat: Ur analysen framkom två kategorier: ´Arbetstillfredsställelse`, med tillhörande tre subkategorier: Meningsfulla interaktioner, Ett öppet och jämlikt arbetsklimat, Socialt stöd. Vidare kategorin: ´Bemanning och resurser`, som innehöll följande subkategorier: Personalstyrkan och dess konsekvenser, Kompetensutveckling samt Fysisk miljö. Slutsats: En god och hållbar arbetsmiljö var av stor vikt för sjuksköterskornas hälsa och välbefinnande på arbetet. Vidare beskrevs det finnas en del riskfaktorer i arbetsmiljön som försämrade arbetsglädjen och sjuksköterskornas välbefinnande. Sammantaget framkom det av intervjuerna att det är viktigt att fortsätta arbeta för att stärka sjuksköterskornas arbetsmiljö, eftersom arbetsmiljön också påverkar vårdkvaliteten och patienternas välmående. Något som är av vikt för folkhälsan och en god hälsa på lika villkor. Nyckelord: Arbetsmiljö, Frisk- och riskfaktorer, Hälsofrämjande arbete, Kvalitativ vetenskaplig metod, Sjuksköterskor / Background: All humans have the right to safe and healthy work environments. Health is inevitably affected by different factors in the working environment that work for or against health. Striving to create health-promoting workplaces is therefore an important part of the national and global public health policy. Previous research, mainly of a quantitative nature, has shown that there are healthy as well as risk factors in nurses' work environment. More qualitative research is however needed which highlights nurses' own experiences of healthy and risk factors in the work environment, to be able to identify improvement opportunities in the work environment and develop the future health promotion work. Aim: The purpose of this study was to highlight nurses' experiences of healthy and risk factors in their work environment, with a focus on improvement factors. Method: A qualitative study was conducted and a qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach was used to analyse data from the five nurses in Central Sweden, who were interviewed using a semi-structured interview method. Results: From the analysis, two categories emerged: `Work satisfaction`, with associated three subcategories: Meaningful interactions, An open and equal working climate, Social support. Furthermore, the category: "Staffing and resources", which contained the following subcategories: Lack of personnel and its consequences, Skills development and Physical environment. Conclusion: A good and sustainable work environment was of great importance for the nurses' health and well-being at work. Furthermore, there were some risk factors in the working environment that worsened work satisfaction and the nurses' well-being. Overall, it was important to continue working to strengthen the nurses' work environment, as the working environment also affects the quality of care and the well-being of the patients. Something that is important for public health and good health on equal terms. Keyword: Health promotion work, Healthy- and risk factors, Nurses, Qualitative method, Working environment

As mudanças registradas nas últimas décadas no universo do trabalho afetaram distintas categorias de trabalhadores. Com a categoria médica não foi diferente. O grande desenvolvimento tecnológico, voltado para a medicina e para a indústria farmacêutica, acrescido do crescimento das empresas compradoras de serviços médicos, compõe um novo cenário que altera o processo, a organização e as relações trabalhistas desta categoria profissional, o que repercute nas condições de trabalho e na saúde dos trabalhadores. Tomando como referência este quadro de mudanças, esta pesquisa objetivou investigar as relações entre o trabalho e a saúde de médicos do Sistema Único de Saúde do município de Jaguariúna (SP). A pesquisa de caráter qualitativo teve como principal técnica de coleta de dados a entrevista (individuais abertas e baseadas no método de instrução ao sósia). Ao todo foram entrevistados quinze (15) médicos e dois (2) gestores da Secretaria de Saúde do município. Os dados obtidos revelaram que aqueles profissionais estão submetidos a um processo de trabalho, baseado no modelo de medicina tecnológica, que lhes tira a autonomia para gerir o próprio trabalho, os sobrecarregam e os expõem a situações de muita pressão. Tal condição faz com que os médicos não se sintam realizados e nem, algumas vezes, se reconheçam no próprio trabalho, além dos relatos de ausência de apoio dos colegas para execução das tarefas e reconhecimento por parte das chefias e pacientes, o que representa um empobrecimento da identidade profissional e a vivência de uma atividade de trabalho contrariada. De acordo com os depoimentos, as condições e a organização do trabalho, de maneira geral, interferem nas condições de vida e saúde daqueles médicos. Hipertensão e transtornos mentais comuns, sob a forma de stress, ansiedade e depressão foram os principais problemas de saúde que os entrevistados relataram sofrer, porém nem todos os identificaram como relacionados ao trabalho. / The last decades had remarkable changes recorded in the world of work that affected different categories of workers. It wasnt different with the medical profession. The great technological development, focusing on medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, added to the growth of the purchasing companies of medical services, makes up a new scenario that changes the process, the organization and labor relations of the professionals in this category, which brings repercussions for the work conditions and workers health. Taking this frame changes as a reference, this study aimed to investigate the physicians from the Sistema Único de Saúde (National Health System) in Jaguariúna city regarding to the relations between doctors work and health. The qualitative research was performed with interviews in which the data collection was the main technique (individually and self-confrontation). Altogether were interviewed fifteen (15) physicians and two (2) administrators of the Sistema Único de Saúde (National Health System) of the mentioned city. The obtained data revealed that those professionals are submitted to a process of work based on the model of medical technology, which takes away their autonomy to manage their own work, burdens and exposes them to high pressure situations. This condition makes the doctors feel the lack of accomplishment and in this case they can even reach the point of do not recognize themselves in their own work, a part of the reports showing the lack of support from the workmates to execute daily tasks and insufficient recognition from managers and patients, which represents an impoverishment of their professional identity and the experience of a contradictory work activity. According to testimony, the work conditions and organization in general, affect the doctors life and health conditions. Hypertension and common mental disorders, expressed mainly in as stress, anxiety and depression were the main health problems that interviewed reported suffering, but not all identified them related to work.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:21:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARGARETH RIBEIRO MACHADO SANTOS SILVA.pdf: 874151 bytes, checksum: f1ff6c0afe3ba6f3f13fedd0302ab9a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-27 / The present study has inquired about the relationship between the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of the axiological priorities and the health and wellness in the job. It was assured that the impossibility of accomplishment of the job values is related to the mental illnesses of the workers, and this relation is moderated by the age and the hierarchical level. It took part in this study, 220 workers from a mixed economy enterprise, the general health questionnaire (GHQ) and the scale of values related to work (EVT). The results confirmed that there is a moderated effect of the age over the relationship between dissatisfaction of the prestige values and mistrust towards the own performance and the psichological stress. It has been recognized differents levels of work satisfaction values, according to the age, the hierarchical level and job tenure. It hasn t been found differences according to the education and to the gender. The dissatisfation of the accomplishment was related to sintomatic scores in all the items of the GHQ: psychological stress, disturbance in the sleep, insecurity about the own performance, psycossomatic disease, desire of death and health in general. As a matter of fact, the perstige dissatisfaction is related to the mistrust towards the own performance and the desire of death. Theses results are discussed according to a theoretical report about values and mental health at work, and considering the sample characteristics and the enterprise which the data were collected. / O presente estudo investigou a relação entre (in)satisfação das prioridades axiológicas e saúde-doença mental no trabalho. Considerou que a impossibilidade de realização dos valores relativos ao trabalho está relacionada ao adoecimento mental de trabalhadores, e que tal relação é moderada pela idade e nível hierárquico. Participaram do estudo 220 empregados de uma organização de economia mista. Foram utilizados o questionário de saúde geral (QSG), de Goldberg e a escala de valores relativos ao trabalho (EVT). Os resultados confirmaram o efeito moderacional da idade, sobre a relação entre insatisfação do valor prestígio e desconfiança no tocante ao próprio desempenho e o estresse psíquico. Foram identificados diferentes níveis de satisfação dos valores laborais, conforme a idade, o nível hierárquico e o tempo de serviço na organização. Não foram encontradas diferenças segundo o gênero e a escolaridade. A insatisfação do valor realização relacionou-se com escores sintomáticos em todos os fatores do QSG: estresse psíquico, transtornos psicossomáticos, distúrbios do sono, desconfiança em relação ao próprio desempenho, desejo de morte e saúde geral. Também a insatisfação do valor prestígio relacionou-se diretamente com desconfiança no tocante ao próprio desempenho e desejo de morte. Os resultados foram discutidos à luz de referencial teórico sobre valores e saúde mental no trabalho, considerando características da amostra e da organização em que os dados foram obtidos.

Na indústria da construção, as quedas de altura constituem-se em um dos tipos mais frequentes de acidentes graves. Alguns fatores contribuem para essas quedas, entre os quais se destacam a falta de qualificação dos trabalhadores, restrições de leiaute e a falta de barreiras de proteção contra quedas. Embora o uso de sistemas temporários de proteção periférica (SPP) seja uma medida importante para prevenir as quedas de altura em canteiros de obras, a literatura não apresenta um conjunto abrangente de requisitos para esses sistemas. As normas de segurança e saúde no trabalho na construção civil, tanto no Brasil como no exterior, apresentam vários requisitos aos quais os SPP devem atender. Contudo, a maioria destes requisitos são relacionados somente à resistência estrutural e à configuração geométrica, negligenciando a eficiência e flexibilidade dos mesmos, bem como não tratam dos processos de montagem e desmontagem. As limitações nos requisitos considerados em diversas fontes e a falta de métodos para verificar a conformidade dos SPP aos requisitos das normas (e outros requisitos relevantes) criam dificuldades para as partes interessadas, tais como órgãos governamentais de fiscalização, empresas construtoras, e os próprios operários encarregados pela execução dos SPP. O objetivo deste trabalho é propor um conjunto de requisitos de desempenho para sistemas temporários de proteção periférica. Estes requisitos foram identificados a partir de várias fontes de evidencia, tais como regulamentos, observações diretas de operações de montagem e desmontagem dos SPP em obras, análise de projetos de SPP, e entrevistas com especialistas. Deste modo, foi identificado um conjunto de 33 requisitos: 15 relativos à segurança, 12 à eficiência e 6 à flexibilidade. Com base nos referidos requisitos, foram avaliados 9 tipos de SPP, em 26 canteiros de obra. Estes SPP foram agrupados em três categorias de acordo com os materiais constituintes: metálicos, madeira e mistos. As principais contribuições deste estudo referem-se ao desenvolvimento de um conjunto amplo de requisitos, à análise das relações entre estes requisitos, indicando se estes podem reforçar-se mutuamente ou estar em conflito, e a proposição de um protocolo que torna claro as premissas adotadas em cada etapa da avaliação. / In the construction industry falls from height are one of the most frequent types of serious accidents. There are a number of factors that contribute for such falls, such as the lack of training for workers, layout constraints, and the lack of fall protection barriers. Although the use of temporary edge protection systems (TEPS) is an important measure to prevent falls from height in construction sites, the literature does not present a comprehensive set of requirements for those systems. Safety and health standards in construction, both in Brazil and abroad, have several requirements to which the SPP should meet. However, most of those standards are limited to structural strength and geometric configuration requirements, neglecting efficiency and flexibility, as well as do not address the assembly and disassembly processes. The limitations of requirements considered in several sources, and the lack of methods to verify the conformance of TEPS to the requirements established in standards (and other relevant requirements) create difficulties for stakeholders, such as government supervisory bodies, construction companies, and the workforce involved in the installation of TEPS. The aim of this study is to propose a set of performance requirements for temporary edge protection systems. These requirements have been identified from various sources, such as standards, direct observation od assembly and disassembly operations, analysis of TEPS design, and interviews with specialists. Thus, a set of 33 requirements were identified: 15 related to safety, 12 to efficiency and 6 to flexibility. Based on those requirements 9 TEPS solutions were evaluated in 26 construction sites. Those solutions were divided into three categories according to the materials used: metal, wood and mixed. The main contributions of this investigation refers to the development of a broad set of requirements, the analysis of the relationships between those requirements, indicating that these can either reinforce each other or be in conflict, and the proposal of a protocol that makes it clear the assumptions made at each evaluation stage.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:38:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PallomaRA.pdf: 1330739 bytes, checksum: 615cfc2c33d75f3140256217535771ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-25 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The elaboration of this thesis aimed at getting to know the structure of the psychological well-being (PWB) at work and analysing the differences in the PWB levels among technical-administrative servants in public and private Institutions of Higher Education (IES) in the municipality of Jo?o Pessoa. Two hundred and thirty-three public and private IES male and female servants of Jo?o Pessoa participated in the research, replying to an instrument composed of questionnaires referring to the elaborated model. Factorial and regression analyses were accomplished in order to test the hypotheses in respect of the proposed model. The results showed that the PWB related with the work is composed of indicators such as affection, vitality, anxiety, depression, satisfaction at work and aspiration for accomplishment and reduction of the self-efficiency. The observed PWB predictors at work were the IES type, presence of children, age and the escape and back-out facing strategy. These predictors possess relationship of moderation among them in the explanation of PWB. On comparing the PWB experienced by the technical-administrative servants, it was observed that those linked to private IES showed higher PWB rates. Furthermore, there are differences among PWB predictors in accordance with the IES type. The applicability of the results of this thesis is wide as regards social interventions in the search of health improvement under a psycho-sociological perspective. Eventually, the thematic of this thesis intends to reinforce the studies on the worker s health, since by knowing what would lead him into a feeling of accomplishment and well-being will result in more chances of promoting him, while creating opportunities of a sounder life for these people in psychological terms / A presente tese foi elaborada tendo em vista os objetivos de conhecer a estrutura do bem-estar psicol?gico (BEP) no trabalho e analisar a presen?a de diferen?as nos n?veis de BEP entre os funcion?rios t?cnico-administrativos das Institui??es de Ensino Superior (IES) p?blicas e privadas do munic?pio de Jo?o Pessoa. Participaram da pesquisa 233 funcion?rios de IES p?blica e privada do munic?pio de Jo?o Pessoa, de ambos os sexos, os quais responderam a um instrumento composto pelos question?rios referentes ao modelo elaborado. Foram realizadas an?lises fatoriais e de regress?o, a fim de testar as hip?teses referentes ao modelo proposto. Os resultados revelaram que o BEP relacionado ao trabalho ? composto por indicadores como afetos, vitalidade, ansiedade, depress?o, satisfa??o no trabalho, aspira??o por realiza??o e redu??o da autoefic?cia. Os preditores do BEP no trabalho verificados foram o tipo de IES, a presen?a de filhos, a idade e a estrat?gia de enfrentamento fuga e esquiva. Estes preditores possuem relacionamento de modera??o entre si na explica??o do BEP. Por meio da compara??o do BEP vivenciado pelos funcion?rios t?cnico-administrativos, observou-se que os vinculados ?s IES privadas apresentam maiores ?ndices de BEP. Al?m disso, existem diferen?as entre preditores para o BEP de acordo com o tipo de IES. A aplicabilidade dos resultados desta tese ? ampla no que diz respeito a interven??es sociais em busca da melhoria da sa?de sob uma perspectiva psicossociol?gica. Enfim, a tem?tica desta tese pretende refor?ar os estudos sobre a sa?de do trabalhador, uma vez que, conhecendo-se o que levaria a um sentimento de realiza??o e bem-estar, h? mais possibilidades de promov?-los, oportunizando ?s pessoas uma vida mais saud?vel em termos ps?quicos