ESTUDIO DE LAS CONDICIONES DE TRABAJO EN EXPLOTACIONES DE OVINO Y CAPRINO EN GALICIA

Abstract

The surveys of work conditions allow us to have a better knowledge of the worker’s risks. The European Union carried out its first surveys in 1990, repeating it every five years. In Spain, the National Institute of Security and Hygiene, has carried out six surveys on different dates: 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003 and 2007. The fourth National Survey on Work Conditions (2007), has included, workers of the agricultural sector, for the first time. They conducted a total at 11054 surveys: a 5.1% among the agricultural sector, 12.7% among the construction, 16.7% among industry and 65.5% in the services sector. In Galicia there are 87,758 workers in the agricultural sector, although only 52 of them were polled for this survey. In this area of Spain, there are more than 25,000 exploitations of sheep and goats, with a census superior to 300,000 heads (MAP, 2005), but only few of them, around fifty, reach a size superior to the 250 heads. We currently are carrying out a survey of work conditions, in eleven of these exploitations, with a total of fifteen workers. In this article we are going to show the obtained results to date. Keywords: sheep and goats, work conditions, risk prevention, security, hygiene.