Introduction:

the management of hazardous chemicals in the community is not carry on a safe and responsible ways.

Objective:

to assess the safety level of the selected community in the management of chemicals hazards.

Methods:

exploratory-descriptive research conducted in the popular council Pogolotti-Finlay-Belen in the municipality of Marianao, between the years 2013-2015. There was a population of 1142 systematic practitioners in the handling of hazardous chemicals. The sample was 177 people; was obtained non-probabilistically and was intentionally selected. An exhaustive checklist was prepared for applying the safety level assessment method (ENS), with specific objectives and contents of each defense echelon: Echelon 0: “Design of the Defense in Depth”; Echelon 1: "Prevention of Abnormal Events"; Echelon 2: "Control of Abnormal Events" and Echelon 3: "Accidents mitigation”.

Results:

The sets defined as safety dominant aspects are classified as Unacceptable-Critical (I-C) or Unacceptable-Extreme (I-E) in this neighborhood; what implies the taking of urgent measures by the low values of the existing safety level.

Conclusions:

In the group of study, difficulties were identified in the evaluation of the risk in the community context that show, after the analysis of exhaustive sensitivity, that the actions to be taken to revert the initial situation, do not require of material resources with a significant cost to reach the desired state; however, this state can be achieved through the application of a group of organizational and management measures.

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