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The key to successfully develop a program to enhance safety and ergonomics in the workplace is an innovative process that aims to reduce workplace injury levels as well as minimize risks. This can be achieved by raising awareness and changing employees’ behavior. Nowadays managers tend to strive for improved efficiency and productivity in all sectors. However, the growing demand for greater productivity has put the employees’ health and well-being at great risk. Following another trend, the enterprise under study is based on the principles of solidarity economy that aims to guarantee self-management processes, focusing on the human health and wellbeing rather than financial profits. Based on the ergonomic questionnaire results and the follow-up of the co-workers’ routine, some forms of improvement to accomplish their tasks were suggested.
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The author acknowledges the members of the Social Incubator of the Federal University of Goiás for the support and to all collectors of recyclable materials that have made this work possible.
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Silva, H.R. (2018). Labor Ergonomic Analysis Applied to a Brazilian Solid Materials Recycling Cooperative. In: Goossens, R. (eds) Advances in Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 605. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60828-0_20
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