Assessment of personal and behavioral qualities of workers in system of interactive incident forecasting and occupational safety management

Abstract

Interactive prediction of incidents is a modern direction of labor protection, that allows managing the occupational safety level. The paper shows that the so-called “human factor”, including the psychological unpreparedness of workers to perform work (both work managers and direct implementers), is the main cause of industrial injuries, in addition to technical and organizational causes. In this regard, the urgent issue is the need to take into account and analyse the psychological state of the worker for predicting incidents. The article discusses the psychological aspects of occupational safety on the example of workers performing work at height that relate to work of high danger. However, the “height factor” is common in various areas of production, which necessitates a scientific analysis of its impact on the psychological state of the worker and on the level of occupational safety. The paper provides information on the system of interactive prediction of incidents, one of the elements of which is the module of testing the psychological state of the employees for identifying workers who are least suitable for this type of work.