This paper presents a study, developed in a concessionary company of electric energy, looking for to identify the environmental factors that contribute to the occurrence of accidents in the emergency services in the overhead distribution lines of electric energy. The study, analyzes the normative instructions for the work and the original operative manners, developed by the own workers, face to the unexpected ones and current uncertainties of the nature emergencial of the services. Was also identified the types of more common accidents related to the activity and it's correlation with the environmental factors, if constituting in an important element for the development of a prevention system of accidents for all the companies that act in emergency services in the overhead distribution lines of electric energy.
Environmental factors; safety; electric energy
