Abstract
The city of Foz do Iguaçu, PR, is located on the triple border Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina, and is home to one of the largest dry ports in Latin America. This study aimed to identify the chemical products and dangerous goods moved through this port between 2014 and 2018, as well as the risks that affect local organizations in the prevention, preparedness and rapid response (P2R2) to emergencies involving these products. From the COMEX STAT, the products were identified and, through the interview technique, the organizational risks were pointed out. As a result, 284 products were described, totaling 8,948 economic transactions and 10,556 million kilograms, which were allocated into 8 classes, and 18 risk subclasses. Through the Pareto Method, the accumulated frequency of economic transactions and their quantities was evaluated, verifying that, in the studied period, Class 3 – Flammable Liquids and Class 8 – Corrosive Substances, together represented 25% of the risk classes, 70.51% of the cumulative frequency of economic transactions and 80% of the number of products sold. As for organizational risks, it was found that 29.46% of the evidence belongs to the category “strategic risks”; 28.68% to “operational risks”; 20.16% to “image risks”; 15.50% to “budgetary risks”; and 6.20% to “legal risks”. These results help public agents to develop risk management programs associated with P2R2 at the local level.
Keywords
risk management; urban risks; hazardous chemicals; prevention, preparedness and response