Results: The mean age was 39.5± 12 years, with a higher occurrence of the female gender (74.68%), of unmarried civil status (38.96%) and with a technical-level education (34.40%). The perception of workers about the workplace health and safety system was independent of their nursing or administrative work activity type (p>0.05); the highest perception among both groups was the trust of workers in the efficacy of the of the safety system (2.71 and 2.77), and the lowest perceptions were for empowerment of management safety (2.35 and 2.46) and security as a priority of workers and risk rejection (2.35 and 2.40).