ABSTRACT
Brazil stands as the third largest producer of shoes, according to the MTE (2010) have been reported 6,831 accidents in a population of 377,330 registered workers in the shoe industry, generating an incidence rate (18.1/1000). This rate, although higher than that considers all economic sectors of the country (15.0/1000), is much lower than the incidence rate for the industry in general (29.7/1000). These accidents occur as a result of unsafe conditions, which employees are exposed in the workplace and/or unsafe acts, which are acts committed by employees, resulting from ignorance of the risks, or attitudes that neglect the risk and danger. Measures to prevent these agents causing accidents deserve to be studied, since only the use of individual protection equipment (PPE), is not sufficient to minimize this accident scenario.
