Occupational risk factors and implications for vivarium workers' health

ABSTRACT Cross-sectional study that assessed the implications for vivarium workers' health and inherent risk factors in a Federal Institution of Science and Technology. Data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire and participant observation in 2014. It was demonstrated that the vivarium workers' surveyed in general have their functions related to physical, accidents, ergonomic, biological, chemical and organizational/psychosocial risk factors. The survey reflected the current situation of deterioration of the work-health relation at vivariums, signaling the need to update and constant monitoring in the health care of these workers.