PROBLEMS OF REGULATORY AND LEGAL ENSURE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH DURING PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-RISK WORK AT HEIGHTS

Abstract

Purpose: To determine the existing problems of regulatory and legal ensure of occupational safety and health during the performance of high-risk work at height. Methodology: Analysis of the content and structure of NPAOP 0.00-1.15-07 "Rules of occupational safety during work at height" and other regulatory and technical documents relating to the rules and procedure for work at height. Conclusions: According to the results of the conducted research, it was established that the content and structure of NPAOP 0.00-1.15-07 is characterized by problems related to the actual impossibility (from a legal point of view) of the employer's development of the work execution project, which is a component of the order-permit for the execution of high-risk works; impossibility of providing workers (within the requirements of NPAOP 0.00-1.15-07) with means of collective and individual protection, as well as ensuring the assessment of compliance of means of personal protection against falling from a height with the relevant Technical Regulations; non-standardization of regulatory and legal compliance of the means of performing work at height in unsupported space and during climbing work, work with electrified, powder tools, work from construction cradles and those that are hung on the hook of a crane and hoists, etc. current security requirements. Directions for solving the identified problems related to the need to place in the content of NPAOP 0.00-1.15-07 references to normative and legal documents that have been replaced by those that have lost their validity, as well as the development of new standards regulating the performance of certain types of high-risk works (at height), to replace those that have lost their validity. Research limitations: The results of the research relate exclusively to the problems of the structure and content of NPAOP 0.00-1.15-07 "Rules of occupational safety during work at height". Value: The obtained research results can be used to improve the content and structure of NPAOP 0.00-1.15-07 to increase the level of safety during work at height. Originality: Directions for improving the content and structure of NPAOP 0.00-1.15-07 have been developed, which will allow minimizing professional risks during the performance of certain types of high-risk work at height.