МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ОПЫТ В ОБЛАСТИ ВЫЯВЛЕНИЯ И УЧЕТА МИКРОТРАВМ РАБОТНИКА НА РАБОЧЕМ МЕСТЕ

Abstract

In the domestic practice of labor protection, the procedure for investigating accidents in production occupies a special place in the complex of measures to ensure the safety of employees. Article 227 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation defines that it is necessary to investigate as an accident only those health injuries that have caused the need for transferring the victim to another job, temporary or persistent loss of his/her ability to work, or death of the victim. If an employee receives a micro-trauma, he/she does not need to issue a sick leave, it is enough to debride the wound and he/she can continue working. These are precisely such micro-traumas in production that are currently not taken into account and are not being investigated. Registration of micro-injuries in production is mandatory and is currently used exclusively in medical organizations. The sanitary and epidemiological rules SP 3.1.5.2826-10, approved by the resolution of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation № 1 of 11.01.2011, are aimed at preventing the occurrence and spread of HIV- infection and contain a logbook form to register accidents during medical manipulations. However, such registration is conducted in order to ensure the possibility of further tracing the connection of an employee’s infection with the micro-injury that has occurred, and not for the occupational risk management. Despite the obvious interest and a significant number of scientific and practical works published recently and devoted to the problems of occupational safety management in order to reduce traumatism, they do not sufficiently cover the practical aspects of providing the employee’s safety related to the identification and analysis of cases of micro-injuries of employees in production as a basis for identifying hazards, assessing occupational risks and developing preventive measures. In this article, the authors consider the foreign experience of identification and registration of the circumstances and causes that led to the occurrence of adverse events and accidents in production.