Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, José Paúl Alcívar. Perception of risk in workers of Civil engineering and the relationship with the level of education. Revista San Gregorio [online]. 2019, vol.1, n.31, pp.52-63. ISSN 2528-7907.

The civil engineering workers are habitually exposed to many risks that can affect their health and the perception of these hasn’t been of interest for occupational health and safety. The main objective of this article is to analyze this perception of the labor risk of the workers (operators) of a company that performs civil construction works. A crosssectional descriptive study was proposed. The measuring instrument is the model of psychometric paradigm, in this way selfadministered questionnaires were made to the construction workers, preserving the anonymity of the subjects. The questionnaire consisted of nine questions of different dimensions about the perception of a risk factor, and a question about the level of education of the subject was also added. The analysis of the perception provided favorable answers for this study, where the representation of characteristic profile the characteristic profile of the perceived risk was created and finally there was significant differences between the perception of risk with basic level of education. This analysis reflects an important focus on the construct of occupational risk.

Keywords : Nivel de educación; paradigma psicométrico; percepción del riesgo; trabajadores de la ingeniería civil..

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