Avaliação da percepção da gestão relacionada à segurança em terminais de armazenamento de líquidos inflamáveis e combustíveis

Abstract

The consequence of accidents in the industry can be more severe than in others branches of work. In case of the chemical industry, or in others activities where are developed production, storage, processing and handling of reactive or unstable substances, is need more funding focused on prevention and protection of equipment, persons, and environment. Brazil has several handling terminals that can be classified as terrestrial or waterway. In these terminals, liquid subject to ignition and fire storage farms, compounded a huge contingent of equipment of storage that requires maintenance and inspection for assurance of the physical integrity of them and of their accessories, which could fail. In this work were presented techniques for social research for assessment of safety perception of workers of storage terminals, and the survey submitted by e-mail, using a 5 points Likert scale. The research is based on management practices from Operational Safety Management System of ANP (Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels National Agency) Resolution #5/2014, that is aimed at oil refineries regulation, but not aimed for flammable and combustible liquid storage terminals (despite the similarity between both ones). Statistical methods were presented for hypothesis tests, and among them, the answers had confirmed the significance by using variance analysis, ANOVA. The results of the survey applications results for these professionals perception assessment about the safety in this kind of activity and extracted comments from different perceptions, shown higher perception of safety by class of managers, followed by classes HSE, maintenance, operation and administrative, as well as shows the importance of training for operational safety improvement in this type of industry, and proposals for futures works