Representaciones sociales sobre seguridad y salud en el trabajo en universitarios

Abstract

Background and objectiveOccupational safety and health corresponds to one of the specific competencies that physiotherapy professionals in Colombia must develop, but it can also be deepened, as a professional field of action to be certified through postgraduate training. The objective of this study was to describe the social representations on safety and health at work in physiotherapy students at a public university in the city of Cali (Colombia). MethodsQualitative study of the theory of social representations, the data were collected with the free association word lists technique, applied to 37 students before the beginning and 12 weeks of the practice of safety and health at work. The analysis was performed with the free software Anthropac. ResultsThe concept of occupational safety and health was configured in the core through the active pause lexema. Emerging categories were ergonomics and movement. ConclusionsThe social representations mentioned are part of the competencies established in the professional profile and competencies of the physiotherapist in Colombia, while other social representations are imaginary that the student considers should know the physiotherapist about OSH.