Abstract
The results of the authors’ research in more than 600 organizations have shown the labor protection specialist competence influence on the occupational risk management system state and the overall labor protection management system. It is revealed that the leading role in the labor conditions and safety improving strategy choosing and formation, as well as in the scientifically based method of professional risk assessment belongs to a labor protection specialist with a certain competence. The paper describes 16 occupational safety specialists’ professional competence levels and the main factors that determine their formation. The possibilities and abilities of specialists’ with different professional competence levels to assess professional risks are considered and presented in tabular form. About 100 data of different approaches and methods for assessing occupational risks are given, from which only a competent occupational safety specialist can choose the best method for his organization. His decision influences not only the assessing and managing professional risks procedure costs, determined by the particular method choosing, but also the overall occupational safety management system effectiveness in the organization. The conducted research has shown a significant occupational safety competent specialists role in ensuring the professional risks management in the organization and allowed to link his capabilities in assessing professional risks with his professional competence level. This information can motivate the employer to pay attention to the labor protection specialists’ role in ensuring the industrial safety and take care of their timely skills improvement.
Highlights
The risk-based approach to occupational health management in Russia is not just a motto of the future, but an existing reality
The professional risk management system ensures workplace working conditions improvement, which leads to savings on non-production costs [3, 4].The successful workplace safety organization based on the occupational risk levels reduction is obvious [2, 5,6,7]
The leading role in the professional risk assessment and management organization is assigned to occupational safety specialists who do not always possess the necessary competence
Summary
The risk-based approach to occupational health management in Russia is not just a motto of the future, but an existing reality. The leading role in the professional risk assessment and management organization is assigned to occupational safety specialists who do not always possess the necessary competence Sometimes they are not sufficiently trained and are not able to organize an effective occupational risk management system in the company, because they do not have sufficient knowledge for this, which does not allow for an acceptable occupational safety management system functioning level. This circumstance testifies to the relevance of the working conditions and labor protection state dependence problem in the organization on the labor protection specialists’ competence level studied by the authors
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