Evaluación de los factores de riesgo físicos y químicos en el Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional

Abstract

This research focused on the evaluation of physical and chemical factors of risk that may arise in the Institute of Biological Sciences of EPN. The research began with the collection of local information. After, the checklists proposed by the INSHT for PYMES were selected and evaluated by this methodology, simultaneously updating the mapping of the site was made. Their results showed that the chemical risk factors are most prevalent in laboratories, while the physical risk factors are acceptable; however we proceeded to measure those, due to the observations of workers. Chemical risk factors were analyzed in three areas: health, safety and environment, using the methodology of the INRS. Getting to the potential condition the environment is due to poor management of chemical waste produced by laboratories, and that the safety factor is the increased risk in the ICB, followed by the possible health effects due to formaldehyde, naphthalene and alcohol, being the most relevant chemicals because of mishandling and lacking ventilation. Technical solutions approach was proposed and evaluated economically.