Occupational Risk Management In a Mining Enterprise With the Aid of an Improved Matrix Method for Risk Assessment

doi:10.46544//ams.v25i3.3

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In the context of active implementation of risk-oriented approach principles when providing labor safety, many mining enterprises encounter the necessity to create occupational risk management systems in the organization’s general management structure (Noskov et al, 2020; Rudakov et al, 2020; Skopintseva and Balovtsev, 2020; Pelipenko et al, 2019; Kazanin et al, 2018; Semenov and Kruk, 2017)
In a number of instances, this leads to difficulties in the organization of an occupational risk management system in mining enterprises, which is complicated by the inconsistency in clear methodological recommendations for building such systems
The ways to overcome the drawbacks of the classical matrix risk assessment suggested by the authors have made it possible to develop a new methodological approach that allows for overcoming the risk matrices' weak points to a significant extent, as well as for preserving the simplicity and visibility of the matrix assessment method

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Introduction

In the context of active implementation of risk-oriented approach principles when providing labor safety, many mining enterprises encounter the necessity to create occupational risk management systems in the organization’s general management structure (Noskov et al, 2020; Rudakov et al, 2020; Skopintseva and Balovtsev, 2020; Pelipenko et al, 2019; Kazanin et al, 2018; Semenov and Kruk, 2017). It is worth mentioning that, from the point of view of occupational risk management, risk matrices do not provide a data volume sufficient for justification of protective measures: they do not answer the question, “What has to be done to reduce the hazard?” because such information is not included in the structure of risk matrices For this reason, risk matrix users may have a gap in understanding between the notions of “risk assessment” and “risk management”. In a number of instances, this leads to difficulties in the organization of an occupational risk management system in mining enterprises, which is complicated by the inconsistency in clear methodological recommendations for building such systems

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