ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFICIENCY OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS IN THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AT SUGAR FACTORIES OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article considers the importance of sugar mills' environment, conditions, and occupational safety. According to modern requirements, the efficiency of an enterprise should be determined not only using the cost of outproducts but by a comprehensive strategic assessment of energy efficiency, technological safety, impact on the environment, and working conditions at workplaces. The critical driving force for the development of modern technologies is effective approaches to determine the economical components of the environmental impact assessments, as well as management systems to improve conditions and occupational safety at workplaces of sugar production. At the same time, it is necessary to optimize the use of electricity, natural gas, coal, and freshwater with the maximum quality of products at the sugar factories of Ukraine. To economically substantiate the safety and environmental components based on legal, economic, and social requirements in sugar production, these components were analyzed regarding occupational safety, identification of problems, drawbacks in the management, and the regulatory and legal systems of occupational safety. The main environmental factors of sugar production are greenhouse gases emission. These emissions result from using natural gas; the electricity produced by the energy system of Ukraine; decarbonization of limestone; and pulp storage. All these components affect the working conditions at workplaces and the environment. Considering these components and their impact on working conditions and the environment with certain features of the technological process of sugar production, the general economic and social approaches to determine the effectiveness of occupational safety and environmental safety in the system "human-machine-environment" were worked out. It was established that improving working conditions and safety and normalizing ecological impacts can reduce the consumption of natural gas (up to 17%); electricity (about 6.7%) and significantly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and methane as the leading greenhouse gases. Furthermore, the rationalization of workplace organization in the sugar production management system can increase labor productivity by up to 20%. The introduction of the assessments that consider the safety, legal and environmental components of the system "human-machine-environment" makes it possible to increase the efficiency of sugar production management. Keywords: economic efficiency, social efficiency, environmental safety, sugar production, occupational safety, working conditions, assessment.