ESTRESSE ENTRE VIGILANTES DE EMPRESAS DE SEGURANÇA PRIVADA DE PELOTAS, RS: OCORRÊNCIAS E CARACTERÍSTICAS DO TRABALHO

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating the world of private security workers, in the city of Pelotas-RS, in the year of 2008, refering to the relationship between work shifts (day and night) and the possible occurence of stress, since night shift work may lead to a worse performance of labor tasks and cause more labor accidents. The accomplished study of tranversal type was based on security service companies which were selected from aleatory sample, proportionally to the number of security workers. The defined sample were 223 security workers, from which 19 did not belong to any known companies. However, only a total of 56 security workers from the 13 selected companies answered the study questionnaire. Research data showed a 40-hour work week schedule, approximately. The security workers who labored from 41 to 47 hours showed a percentage of stress of 60%. From the security workers interviewed, 71,4% did not labor in another place, and the 28,6% who did, developed different activities. A total of 69,6% of the interviewees attended qualifying courses, while the other 30,4%, who had not attended any complementing courses, showed a percentage of 58,8% of stress. The research results indicate that 53,6% of security workers labor at night, showing a higher proportion of stress compared to the ones who labor during the day