Perception of work risks in the university occupational field

Abstract

The current study was focused on analyzing the perception of labor risks that people have in their profesional environment to reduce the rating of the accident which occurs in different areas of labour when the workers develop their activities. A quantitative approach was introduced with a descriptive scope and non-experimental-transectional design. The method “Rating Perception Risk” was used by García, Castaño, Oliver & Ramírez (2009). To analyze the perception, the exposure to accidents rating was examined at the beginning; it was through three dimensions: Risk existence rank, health effects and control of negative effects; the criteria described were high-risk perception and low-risk perception in the workers of the Faculty of Administrative and Economic Science at Luis Vargas Torres Technical University, in the city of Esmeraldas -Ecuador. Among the main findings, it is evident that the ergonomic risk perception is high in professors, while the perception is low in the administrative and cleaning assistant personnel.