Covid-19 Occupational Health and Safety Manual on Contagion Risks in the banana companies of Teapa, Tabasco

Abstract

In December 2019 a pandemic called COVID-19 emerged in China, in February 2020 the first suspected case arrived in Mexico by a Mexican person who had traveled to Italy and had mild symptoms, and it was in March that the Mexican government declared emerging pandemic and implementing a series of prevention measures against COVID-19 to control the number of infections and a large number of mortality rate of 0.26 percent of inhabitants in the country. The objective of this study is to identify the possible causes that generate more contagion in the banana industry and achieve a reduction in contagion. When carrying out COVID-19 prevention studies in the Banana Companies of Teapa, Tabasco, we evaluated that many Companies do not comply with the measure of health safety guidelines in the environment of the banana industry. Given that through these collected data, a Safety and Health Manual in the Prevention of COVID-19 is proposed, in the Industrial processes of the Banana Companies due to the large number of COVID-19 infections and thus establish a safe return to the facilities with new prevention measures complying with the provisions of the manual. These results obtained allowed you to design new recommendations in relation to the banana companies evaluated through their workers.