Collection of solid urban waste and its impact on the health of workers Recolección de residuos sólidos urbanos y su impacto sobre la salud de los trabajadores

Abstract

In the development of the activities of the human being, always generate waste, statistical data inform that in average in the world generate 1,2 per capita kg of useless waste, in consequence, does important the work developed by the people that work in companies of recolección of waste, those who in the development of his works see exposed to diverse factors of risks that can derive in an accident of work or in an illness of labour origin, thus this document analyses the exhibition to one of these risks, thebiological. In the same does review of the recommendations of prevention that have realised some authors and concludes with the need to standardise and implement safe procedures that involucresto the company to the worker and to the community in general.