An approach to the economic assessment of production risk at a mining enterprise

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to present a methodical approach to the economic assessment and analysis of the organization of the production process of a mining enterprise, which consists in the fact that the risk is considered as a unity of benefits and costs in the development of the concept, design, planning and implementation of the production process in the interaction of the owners of the mining enterprise. enterprises, top managers, line managers and workers to provide an interconnected increase in safety, productivity and efficiency of mining operations. Relevance. The operation of mining enterprises, created to generate income for its participants in the process of developing mineral deposits, is often accompanied by significant losses incurred as a result of failures, injuries and accidents. Such events are the result of the implementation of management decisions taken by one of the subjects of the enterprise – the business owner, top manager, line manager, worker – in the development of the concept, design, planning and implementation of the production process. A reliable economic assessment of production risk as a ratio of planned benefits and costs required to obtain them, as well as possible damage from unforeseen incidents, is necessary to improve the safety and efficiency of production. Research methodology: observations; generalization of factual data; modeling; system analysis; functional cost analysis; a critical review of the literature on the research topic; questioning and expert assessments. Results of the work and their scope. A management toolkit is proposed for the economic assessment of production risk, which allows for more efficient and safe organization of the interaction of business owners, top managers, line managers and workers, as well as specialists in the development of the concept, design, planning and implementation of the production process. Conclusions. The safety, productivity and efficiency of the production of a mining enterprise is determined by the coherence of the interaction of its subjects - business owners, top management, line managers and workers, as well as specialists – in the formation and implementation of the production process as a unity of technological, labor and organizational and managerial processes, taking into account economic assessment of production risk. The level of coherence of interaction is determined, in turn, by the structure of the common goal of these subjects and the degree of unity in their understanding of the ways to achieve it, taking into account the needs, dangers and opportunities of each of them, the corresponding fine tuning of the logistics of the production process in the area of responsibility of each subject.