Occupational safety

The main goal in the field of occupational safety is to create adequate, safe and healthy working conditions at enterprises, institutions and organizations regardless of their form of ownership.

In the conditions of the formation of a market economy, the development of denationalization processes, and the restructuring of the economic management system, the processes of management and supervision of occupational safety are significantly complicated, and there is a need to transfer it to a qualitatively new level, which, in turn, requires solving the tasks of organizational, material and technical, scientific and regulatory support in the field of occupational safety.

The difficult economic situation in which the majority of enterprises find themselves does not make it possible to significantly improve the state of working conditions and safety.

Compared with 2000 - 2002, in 2003 there is an upward trend in industrial accidents:
2000 - 68 people, including 3 with fatal consequences;
2001 - 107 people, including 9 with fatal consequences;
2002 - 87 people, including 3 with fatal consequences;
2003 - 94 people, including 4 with fatal consequences.




Of the total number of injured, the largest number of people were injured as a result of:

• accidental fall of the victim;
• from the action of objects and parts that move, rotate, or fly apart;
• falling, collapse, or caving in of objects;
• road traffic accidents;
• other causes.

For the most part, fatal cases at work occur as a result of road traffic accidents (about 40%).

Since the beginning of 2003, 272 collective agreements of enterprises of various forms of ownership have been registered, including, based on the results of inspections, agreements of 34 enterprises were registered. During the notification registration of collective agreements of enterprises, institutions and organizations of the city, attention was focused on the presence in the collective agreement of the manager's obligations regarding timely payment of wages, compliance with minimum social guarantees in remuneration, and social protection of workers in harmful and dangerous working conditions.

The state examination of working conditions of the city for 2003 carried out 124 inspections of the quality of certification of workplaces according to working conditions, the correctness of the application of lists of industries, works, professions, positions and indicators according to which preferential pensions are established and additional leave is provided, including at enterprises:

• state and municipal property - 27;
• collective - 85;
• private - 12.

In order to eliminate shortcomings in the certification of workplaces for working conditions and the provision of benefits and compensations to employees for work in unfavorable working conditions identified during inspections, 108 orders and 10 submissions were sent to enterprise managers.

The inspection materials for 6 enterprises whose managers irresponsibly treated the implementation of orders and the conduct of certification were transferred for appropriate response to the State Labor Protection Supervision.

To improve the development trend in the field of labor protection and eliminate problematic issues, it is necessary to:

• Strengthen the responsibility of managers (representatives of owners) of enterprises for non-compliance with labor protection legislation requirements.

The Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the executive body of local self-government needs to:

• to create a Web - page of the city labor protection service for informing enterprises and the population of the city;
• creation of a system of information - analytical reporting on the state of labor protection of the city's business entities by e-mail via the Internet.

Goals and priority tasks for 2004:

• increasing preventive measures to prevent workplace injuries and occupational diseases;
• improvement of labor protection management systems in the city and at enterprises;
• improve and implement the mechanism of financial influence for the unsatisfactory state of labor protection at the enterprise;
• improve the financial levers of influence on enterprises and managers depending on the state of labor protection and the level of injuries at the enterprise.