Mejoramiento de la rentabilidad de la empresa alimentos del huerto s.a. de la ciudad de quito, mediante la identificación y control de los riesgos laborales

Abstract

The main focus of the degree work is the identification and control of occupational risks, which took place in Alimentos del Huerto S.A. in Quito city, with the objective of finding the influence that bad labor practices have on the company's performance. As an initial stage, the work processes were observed in order to carry out an evaluation of occupational risks, using the Spanish methodology of the Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo (INSHT) to obtain all the occupational risks present in the production processes. After obtaining the results, it was verified that there are moderate, important and intolerable risks, for which the NTP330 risk assessment methodology was applied, and mitigation and improvement measures were obtained. During this time the risks were evaluated and values of operating profitability, production costs, quantity of raw material processed, sales, among others, and an improvement was evidenced between the results of the first quarter before the implementation of mitigation and improvement measures, and the results after such implementation. The implementation of improvements was carried out in one month, so the total data collection was done in 7 months, all this with the intention of verifying the change that exists with the application of mitigation measures of labor risks and obtaining results, verifying the increase of the operational margin, and the amount of raw material processed, helping to affirm the fulfillment of our objectives and thus have a quantitative demonstration of the importance of industrial safety in the profitability of the company.