Article about need of carrying out preventive actions on the production, the directed on elimination harmful and dangerous production factors, the prevention of emergence of cases of threat to health and life insured, the caused working conditions. It is noted that in time the held preventive events not only will save considerable funds of insurers, but will secure working from traumas and mutilations, will keep their health and life.
Prevention of accidents –
One of problems of insurance upon occupational accidents and occupational diseases is carrying out the preventive actions directed on elimination of harmful and dangerous production factors, the prevention of emergence of cases of threat to health and life insured, the caused working conditions.
The director of executive management Fonda Stanislav Bogdanov tells about activity of executive management of Social insurance fund from occupational accidents and occupational diseases of Ukraine on implementation of actions of prevention of industrial injuries.
The constitutional law of citizens of Ukraine on social protection, on providing them in case of complete, partial or temporary disability, loss of the supporter is guaranteed by obligatory state social insurance which is carried out by Social insurance fund from accidents and occupational illnesses of Ukraine – the non-profit self-defined organization which activity is based on requirements of the European code of a social assistance and International Labour Organization recommendations.
Following the results of 2007 in Ukraine about 20 thousand people are injured on production, a number of resonant failures with considerable human and material losses is allowed. However, at the same time, it is necessary to note that dynamics of decrease in industrial injuries though as a whole the risk of death or a travmirovaniye of workers in branches of national economy remains above, than in the developed European countries is over the last 5 years observed. Also I want to note that last year more cure is spent for implementation of preventive actions by executive management of Fund, than in 2006 almost five times.
What factors lead to industrial injuries? First of all, it violations of labor and production discipline, work safety requirements during operation of equipment, adaptations, mechanisms, the admission to work without training and examination of questions of labor protection, absence or imperfection of a control system of labor protection, the unsatisfactory organization of production, a low level of responsibility for safety of work, both heads of the enterprises, and working. In other words, the industrial injuries are a consequence of shortcomings and omissions in work of heads of the enterprises and experts in labor protection.
After all employers bear responsibility for insured, they and pay insurance fees in Fund. According to Art. 15 of the Law of Ukraine About labor protection the employer is obliged to create work security service on production for the organization and observance of the legal, organizational and technological, sanitary-and-hygienic, social and economic and treatment-and-prophylactic actions directed on accident prevention, occupational diseases, failures during production.
Because of an unsatisfactory condition of sanitary-and-hygienic working conditions there is high a number of persons which received occupational illnesses.
For last year on compensation of the damage put to the worker owing to drawing of harm to its health or in case of his death, the Fund spent over 2,5 billions; on medical, professional and social resettlement of victims on production – about 145 million hryvnias. These payments make nearly 90 % of the budget of Fund.
The analysis of industrial injuries and occupational illnesses at the enterprises of insurers for 2007 testifies that employers, public officials and specialists of security service of work use preventive measures for creation of safe and harmless working conditions on workplaces which could warn industrial injuries, breakdown rate and the professional incidence, caused by working conditions insufficiently, to suspend and reduce dynamics of their growth. Last year the quantity of cases of a traumatism, but after all its level still decreased remains quite high.
Following the results of 2007 decrease in industrial injuries is registered in Chernovitsky, Zaporozhye, Ternopol areas and in the city of Sevastopol. The greatest number of occupational accidents is registered in Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Lugansk areas. The number of the injured persons in these areas makes more than a half from their general quantity across Ukraine. In 2007, in comparison with previous year, level of occupational illnesses a little decreased. In particular, decrease in level of occupational illnesses is observed in Donetsk, Kirovograd and Lvov areas.
The condition of preventive work at the enterprises and creation there safe and harmless working conditions is supervised by insurance experts of Fund who carry out the work at 1 143 794 enterprises registered in Fund, establishments and the organizations, irrespective of their forms of ownership and types of economic activity. In 2007 by representatives of working bodies of executive management of Fund it is revealed 351 thousand violations of the legislation on labor protection, more than 36 thousand representations to employers, and also more than two and a half thousand – offers to the Gosgorpromnadzor about prohibition of operation of 2 166 workplaces, 235 sites and 101 shops are brought.
As shows the industrial injuries analysis, 78 % of occupational accidents occurred for the organizational reasons.
In 2007 working bodies of executive management of Fund provided to insurers 61 261 consultations concerning labor protection and insurance upon accidents, are carried out 1 604 seminar, 1 174 meeting of a round table.
Representatives of working bodies of executive management of Fund took participation in development and introduction of a control system by labor protection at 3 506 enterprises, in development of 6475 regulations on labor protection, in 4 233 complex actions for labor protection of the enterprises, in distribution of 146 thousand regulations, the magazines, special literature, posters, instructions.
As board of Fund it is approved and the program which provides the solution of problems of labor protection and social insurance from occupational accidents taking into account a comprehensive approach to the solution of problems of decrease in level of industrial injuries and occupational illnesses is realized. So, creation of the Uniform interbranch databank of safety and labor hygiene on workplaces travmo-dangerous undertakings with the analysis of a condition of conditions and safety of work on workplaces in certain branches of industrial production of Ukraine and justification of influence of organizational, technical, technology and dangerous production factors on working, with the analysis of the professional and production caused incidence and development of preventive actions is begun, the concept of formation of medico-preventive base of Fund is developed.
Continuation of performance of actions of the Program of prevention of occupational accidents and occupational illnesses in 2008 will give the chance to study an actual state of industrial safety, production sanitary and labor hygiene, to reveal professional risks of workers, will promote improvement of a condition of labor protection and working conditions, decrease in level of industrial injuries and occupational illnesses.
The presidential decree of Ukraine on April 28 it is proclaimed in the Afternoon of labor protection within the World day of labor protection. In this regard from April 21 to April 28 in Ukraine Week of labor protection and support of an action of the International Labour Organization Management of professional risks under the motto My life, my work, my safe work is spent.
Main goal of actions of Week – the appeal of attention of each employer and the worker to complete elimination or achievement of minimum possible (admissible) level of production risks, to prevention of industrial injuries and occupational illnesses, formation of the general culture of labor protection and a conscientious attitude to these questions. It is necessary to think of the corresponding stimulation of workers on safety of work, to strengthen responsibility of executives, experts and other persons for violations which create the increased risk for life and human health.
And in summary, I want to address to employers. Improve labor protection because our shared responsibility – to provide worthy and safe work. After all today it is more favorable to invest in creation of safe working conditions, than then to bear enormous material inputs in the form of penalties, the help to families of victims, restoration of the buildings destroyed after failures and constructions, repair of the damaged equipment and the equipment.
Therefore, in time the held preventive events not only will save considerable funds of insurers, but also will secure working from traumas and mutilations. And, therefore, will keep their health and life.
A.Mamonov,
manager of sector of the organization of prevention of accidents
both OID occupational diseases FSSNSP and ROM in pgt. Spacious.