Analysis of the dynamic growth of the hazardous industry development index and ways to reduce industrial accidents

Abstract

Labor protection is a system of ensuring the safety of life and health of workers in the process of work, including legal, socio-economic, sanitary and hygienic, psychophysical, treatment and prophylactic, rehabilitation and other measures. The functions of labor protection are the study of sanitation and occupational hygiene, the implementation of measures to reduce the influence of harmful factors on the body of workers in the process of work. The main method of labor protection is the use of safety measures. At the same time, two main tasks are solved: the creation of machines and tools, when working with which the danger to humans is excluded, and the development of special protective equipment that ensures human safety in the labor process, as well as training workers in safe working practices and the use of protective equipment, conditions are created for safe work. The main goal of improving working conditions is to achieve a social effect, i.e. ensuring labor safety, preserving the life and health of workers, reducing the number of accidents and diseases at work. Improving working conditions also yields economic results: an increase in profits (due to an increase in labor productivity); reduction of costs associated with compensation for work with harmful and difficult working conditions; reduction of losses associated with injuries, occupational morbidity; decrease in staff turnover, etc. The main document in the normative and technical documentation is the normative act "Occupational safety standards system".