Tool for withdraw displacement and replacement of rectangular covers of storm drain of São Paulo City, with maximum dimensions of 1,20 x 0,70x 0,07 meters

Abstract

The activity of maintenance and urban cleanness of public ways presents ergonomic risks to the health of the worker. Aiming at the improvement in the work conditions and better performance in the activity, the present work considers the project of a ground handling equipment in the withdrawal, displacement and rank of the covers of the culverts. It was analyzed the environment of development of the work, the practical form of the exercise of the activity, the movements and the forces generated for it, as well as the positions adopted in the execution of the task. It is placed as challenge the object of study and interventions, enclosing, the implications for the health of the worker, the improvement of practical of the work and the economic relation of the implantation of the instrument