Risks, injuries, and illnesses among professionals working on offshore platforms: an integrative review
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https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v22.64766Keywords:
Petroleum, Occupational Health, Occupational Risks, Extraction and Processing Industry, Oil and Gas IndustryAbstract
This work aimed to identify in the scientific literature the risks, injuries, and illnesses among professionals working on offshore platforms. This is an Integrative Literature Review whose initial search found 894 publications in the electronic databases Web of Science, Scopus, CINAHL, SciElo, and Lilacs. After applying the inclusion criteria and reading in full, seventeen articles were selected for the corpus of analysis. The analysis culminated in the creation of two categories: risks and injuries related to working on offshore platforms, and risks and injuries related to the lifestyle of offshore platform workers. Working on offshore platforms leads to illnesses, such as hearing loss, sleep disorders, mental disorders, cancer, cardiovascular disorders, and multiple sclerosis. Disease prevention and health promotion activities are essential for this population, in particular those linked to the work of health teams capable of guiding workers, especially in encouraging the practice of healthy habits.
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