Work accidents cost more than R$ 26 billion to Social security between 2012 and 2017, according to data from the Public Ministry of Labor (2018), and this amount was spent on payment of sickness benefit, disability retirement, death pension and accident aid. In order to know the Pernambuco veterinarians’ profile and their exposure to occupational risks, a quantitative qualitative questionnaire was applied. Chi square analysis was used for the risk factors detected. Participated in this research 244 veterinarians, 175 women (71.7%) and 69 (28.2%) men. 54.9% (134/245) of the interviewees have less than 5 years of experience, 28.1% (69/244) work between 5 - 10 years and 16.8% (41/244) work for more than 10 years in Pernambuco. In the metropolitan region of Recife, 35.5% of women with less than 5 years of experience have suffered some type of occupational accident and are more exposed to biological risk. 54.9% of the individuals participating in the research, make check-ups at some point in their lives and 71.3% have already been vaccinated for rabies, of these, 13.2% (23/174) do annual antirabies certificate antibodies. More than half of the participants in this research, 58.18% (142/244) have already suffered work accidents and 68.4% (167/244) know a colleague who has already suffered some type of work accident. The most cited occupational zoonosis was "mange" representing 43.0% of the responses, followed by dermatophytosis, representing 22%. The majority, 78.2% (18/23), of the professionals affected by occupational zoonosis in this research, work in the area of internal medicine and its specialties, outperforming in all analyzed mesoregions in this research. When asked about the existence of a protocol for reporting accidents in their work environment, 87.7% (214/244) of the interviewees stated that they did not. Most interviewees do not know the national policy of worker's health, representing 81.1% (198/244). And more than half, 79.0% (193/244) of this research participants stated that they had not been instructed how to proceed in the face of a work accident. The majority, 81.1% (198/244), of the veterinarians who participated in this research, do not know to whom or where to report a work accident and those who know represented 18.9% (46/244) describing the immediate superior (17.4%) as the body responsible for receiving accident notification. Therefore, prevention strategies aimed at the health of the working veterinarians in Pernambuco are necessary, especially for veterinary women, involving training courses and training in biosafety at work, as well as the use of educational tools to stimulate the anti-rabies certificate antibodies in working veterinary professionals in Pernambuco and to clarify the notification of accidents and work as a measure for situational diagnosis and prevention of new accidents.