Recognition of safety signs: their influence in reducing accidents and minimizing environmental impact
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Major environmental disasters have been a reality for several years, with disastrous consequences for man and the environment around him. The causes are varied and it will be impossible to avoid them in their entirety. However, the possibility of minimization exists and schools will have a fundamental role, in the sense of raising awareness and training students in recognizing and acting in the face of some dangers and risks. Safety signs are an example, as long as we know how to decode them so we can act accordingly. The work presented here intends to highlight the importance of training and information for young adults who are or will be in the short term in a work context, namely students of polytechnic higher education in Leiria, as a future contribution to the mitigation of events that may cause losses irreplaceable and irreversible human and environmental risks.
For this study, a worksheet was created with nine safety signs randomly presented, covering the different typologies, in which students of Higher Technical Professional Courses, taught at the Polytechnic of Leiria, were asked to prepare a caption for each of the signs, before and after the training. By analyzing the information collected, it appears that despite the differences in knowledge of the students surveyed at the beginning of each school year, it is observed that after training there is an improvement in the recognition of safety signs by the vast majority of respondents, anticipating a reduction in accidents with minimization of environmental impacts.
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