The safety of workers is fundamental to the performance of their duties in the workplace and in the productive process. In the production of leather industry , hydraulic flashing machine leather has an important role early in the process and , being a very robust machine and exerts great efforts to fulfill its function also offers very significant risks for operators and technical that it may need to intervene . In order to minimize the likelihood of accidents during operation or during interventions for maintenance, there was a risk analysis, using qualitative and quantitative methodology to identify hazards and propose improvements that provide less likely to accidents, in order to attend the regulatory standard NR -12, thus ensuring the safety and health of workers.
