Soluções digitais para a gestão de saúde e segurança do trabalho: uma prospecção tecnológica

Abstract

Occupational Health and Safety is a concern in several sectors, due to the large number of accidents and occupational illnesses, generally caused by the lack of preventive measures. To minimize occupational risks and reduce incidents/accidents, the development of new management approaches emerges as an alternative. Therefore, this study aims to identify digital solutions aimed at Occupational Health and Safety Management, developed for the control and monitoring of occupational risks and the prevention of work-related accidents and illnesses. The research is exploratory, with a qualitative approach, with bibliographic and documentary techniques, using technological prospecting as a means of investigation, being a search instrument that aims to carry out a survey and identify technologies that boost Occupational Health and Safety Management. The bibliographical research contributed to substantiate the theoretical framework and was carried out in the Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar databases, bases chosen because they have broad and varied international and national content on the subject. The technological research included searches in the databases of the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the Orbit Intelligence platform to survey technologies with Intellectual Property registration. The methodology was divided into four stages: 1) bibliographical research; 2) technological prospecting; 3) analysis of technological prospecting; and 4) diagnosis. In searches carried out in the INPI database, the results were succinct for patents, in which, of the 14 technologies found, 5 were analyzed. In computer programs, the results were broader, with 17 records identified relating to the topic. At Orbit Inteligence, the numbers were extensive, and, among the 170 patents found, 20 were selected and analyzed, all related to systems, methods and devices, interconnected, and can be applied in different situations. Highlight is the technology that monitors physiological changes, the user's location and the environmental conditions of the workplace. It was the most complex patent identified and has functionalities from other integrated technologies. It is concluded that there is a significant number of international technological solutions for Management, however Brazilian technologies are scarce, demonstrating the need to bring knowledge of these functionalities to the national territory.