ABSTRACT
The perception that work may have consequences over individual’s health is ancient. In Greece, four centuries b.C., Hippocrates’ writings already punctuated the diseases caused by work conditions to which workers were submitted. According to Iida, (2005), a great source of tension at work are the unfavourable environmental conditions, such as heat and noise excess, lack of illumination and vibrations. It is shown that the major part of public schools in Brazil does not offer the previous mentioned condition in an adequate way to the development of the activities held there. Such conditions are likely to jeopardize teaching-learning process and teachers’ physical-psychological health. This way, schools must have conditions to undergo an adequation corresponding to new teaching-learning activities policy and methodology. Therefore, it is needed that physical installations are adequate to the performance of educational activities, and that the professionals involved in such operations have work conditions that do not cause health harm.
