The Brazilian Law nº. 6.514, of December 22, 1977 and the approved laws for the entrance nº3.067, of April 12, 1988 that take care of the subjects of health and the worker's safety, promise the urban and rural worker's subjective rights, such as the reduction of the risks of the work by norms of health, hygiene and safety. Considering that those laws are now being applied in farms and processing coffee units aiming of preserving the worker's well-being, the present work had as objective to evaluate the state of conservation of the machines and equipments that can offer risks to the health to compromise the employee's safety and to verify their conformity with the regulating norms during the stage of coffee after-harvest. The risks offered were observed and registered by the machines and equipments, existent in thirty improvement units of coffee in the municipal district of São Sebastião do Paraíso-MG, and appraised in a qualitative way. It was observed that the state of conservation of those equipments is irregular, because they present noise, extreme temperatures, dust and offer risks of shocks and mechanical accidents that compromise the worker's health.
Safety in the work; regulating norms; coffee
