ANALYSIS OF INJURIES AND DEATH OF PEOPLE AS A RESULT OF VIOLATION REQUIREMENTS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Problem statement. The exploring reseach shaws that physical wear and tear of technological equipment, machines and mechanisms that fail to meet safety requirements causes the main number of injuries at coal, chemical, construction industry, etc. A large share of work- and non-workplace injuries with fatal consequences occur on the wear and tear of buildings and structures that are in an emergency state. The injuries are mostly common caused due to violation of fire safety rules, rules of labor protection, and unappropriate sanitary and hygienic working conditions. Thus, there are more than 50 thousand fires in Ukraine every year, in which people die, and material damage exceeds hundreds of millions of hryvnias, incidental losses are 20 times bigger. The reseach shows that a significant part of accidents happens to whokers who perform one-time jobs working under subcontract, without an employment. An average of 140−180 people in Ukraine are injured at work every day, 20 of them become disabled, 4−5 of those people die. The purpose of the article is to reseach the causes and consequences of violations’ requirements of regulatory and legislative acts, safety, which lead to injuries and deaths. And to analyse the statistics of industrial injuries in Ukraine. Conclusions. The analysis revealed that a significant part of the injuries and deaths of people is caused by the operations and maintenance of buildings and structures, violations by enterprise owners of regulatory and legislative acts on labor protection, safety, and sanitary and hygienic working conditions. Also, at the enterprises of Ukraine, work is carried out on worn-out technological equipment, which leads to serious consequences in the form of fatal injuries.