The social hygiene of labor

Abstract

Nowadays, the factors of labor conditions, expectations of workers about working place safety, quality of career development health integrity play an important role in distribution and exploitation of labor force. The social factors and factors of health preserving technologies gain even more importance for organization of working space. The international organizations more often fix increasing of traumatism, deterioration of quality of life of workers, including such crucial for development of labor market and society strata as the youth one. Hence it is a real threat of decreasing of human potential of nation. The article presents international estimates of understanding and calculation of main indices of labor conditions, quality of workplaces and integrity of health of workers. The problems of further investigation in this area are brought out. The characteristics of definition of the term "social hygiene of labor" are exposed as significant for describing and specifying characteristics of modern labor relations, changes in employee-employer relations for the purpose of improving work and employment conditions, as well as social protection of able-bodied population, preserving and promoting health of workers.