Portrait of training and worker health surveillance actions in Santa Catarina

Since 2005, the Centro de Referência em Saúde do Trabalhador in the state of Santa Catarina has promoted several training in Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador for public health inspectors in the state, so that they can intervene in potentially sick work environments.

To evaluate the Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador actions carried out by the health surveillance agencies of the state of Santa Catarina and to verify the perception of inspectors regarding the technical preparation for the performance.

Sample: 257 inspectors from 134 municipalities. Data collection: self-administered questionnaire sent to 733 state inspectors; the number of Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador actions planned and executed in 2018, extracted from the Pharos System. The study was cross-sectional, descriptive and with a convenience sample.

Most municipal workers' health surveillance did not carry out five Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador actions per month; most inspectors have difficulties in carrying out Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador actions and that they are related to organizational issues. There was no association between the variables training received and actions performed.

It is inferred that the difficulties faced by inspectors may have contributed to the low number of Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador actions carried out. It is necessary to make structural and organizational advances in workers' health in the municipalities.