The aim of this study is to present, as operational strategies, the contribuition to elaborate some prevention measures to protect the professional motorcyclists, popularly known as "motoboys", against accidents. The authors present a critic to the human error conception that is hegemonic to the experts at work security. The results come from an Ergonomics study that started over an Union demand of the professional motorcyclists in Minas Gerais. The total come to 85 professional motorciclists who were interviewed and observed. The procedures were: report the activity filmed in the city streets and avenues; selfconfrontation of the scenes and of the map rutes, and of some aspects obeserved in the two selected companies. Finally the authors discuss the limits of the security rules without considering the knowledge obtained by the workers themselves. The measures to change the situation that make the accidents happen were used to elaborate the collective work convention. These measures were supported by a detailed study of the implemented strategies by the individuals who were analised.
Professional motorcyclists; Motoboy; Labor accidents; Traffic accidents; Ergonomics Analysis of Labour
