Tracer variables affecting occupational aptitude for work at heights

Abstract

Introduction: The present study, as a contribution to occupational safety and health will lay the foundations for future research to generate a predictive model that supports early actions capable of positively modifying the
health/illness relationship.

Objective: The objective of the research was to describe the tracer variables that affect the occupational aptitude for work at heights, in the Safety and Health at Work Laboratory of the Industrial and Aviation Center of the SENA Regional Atlántico, in the period from January to December 2022.

Methodology: Descriptive and retrospective documentary, which had as input 1283 clinical histories of apprentice users to whom the medical evaluation protocol for work at heights was applied, and from this sample 216 were sent to the health promoting entities (EPS).

Results and conclusions: Cardiovascular, visual, psychiatric, and psychological variables were found to have an impact on aptitude to work at heights, where 43.52% were able to obtain a certificate of aptitude with recommendations, and 56.48% could not modify the conditions that originated the referral and therefore did not achieve the medical certification to develop the emphasis