DIAGNÓSTICO SITUACIONAL SOBRE RIESGOS QUÍMICOS EN LABORATORIOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN, PROPUESTA DE ATENCIÓN Y PREVENCIÓN

Abstract

The scientific activities in research laboratories every day become more complex and dangerous as they are conditioned by their own characteristics, which represent a number of risks and consequences of origin varied, related primarily to facilities where are made, the development of new technologies and the incorporation of new chemicals Regarding the latter must be taken into account which can be quite dangerous, but usually used in small quantities and discontinuously. The objective of this study is to identify chemical hazards to which workers in the laboratories of the Section of Postgraduate Studies and Research (SEPI), National School of Medicine and Homeopathy (ENMyH), they are exposed for what which conducted a situational analysis, under the Modified situational Diagnosis method (Lopez, 2009), based on the basic components of risk assessment "Risk assessment" (NAS, 1983). Key substances were found as are acrylamide, ethidium bromide, acetic acid, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, which represents a particular risk to workers who operate in such laboratories, displays information about its characteristics, and indicators describing the exposure to these substances, and how to manage the risks found. Listed substances were found represent a special risk to the health of workers, workplace facilities and environment, are found primarily in substances classified by the risk they represent, as irritant, carcinogenic, mutagenic, toxic, mainly represented by the group of solvents and amides The paper proposes the implementation of a health and safety as a first phase allows the delegation of responsibilities and implementation of actions to the integrated management of chemical risks, and it is proposed the implementation of operational controls together with the above actions throw advances in the prevention of chemical hazards to which workers are subjected workplace.