Purpose: Improving the systematic approach to planning and rationalizing labour
protection measures at oil and gas enterprises, based on the results of hazard identification
and industrial risk assessment. At the same time, the main task of the risk management
process is to ensure the rights of employees guaranteed by the current legislation, namely,
to create proper, safe and healthy working conditions.
Design/methodology/approach: A comparative legal method for identifying the
features of European and Ukrainian legislation in the occupational safety and health field;
a structural-logical method for determining the main directions for the further development
of the occupational safety and health management system at enterprises; analysis and
generalization of well-known scientific results on the research topic; statistical analysis
to identify the relationship between the industrial risk' level and various factors that may
affect its value; applied systems analysis and mathematical modelling method for new
methodological approaches' development to assessing of hazards' likelihood and their
consequences' severity were used. The basis for improving the systematic approach
to planning and rationalizing labour protection measures is based on the standard IEC
61882:2001. The statistics are taken from the "Messages" information system, which
operates in the State Service of Ukraine on Labour and is designed to collect and process
data on occupational injuries.
Findings: An analysis of the current legislative and regulatory acts showed promising
directions for their improvement. A mathematical model for scoring industrial risk is
proposed, which takes into account the relationship between industrial risk and preventive
measures and the time of their implementation. The calculation system developed on the
basis of the proposed model provided a reduction in the time for processing data and
calculating the values of industrial risks by 20...25%.
Research limitations/implications: Statistical data on industrial injuries at enterprises
of the oil and gas industry of Ukraine for 2018-2019 were used.
Practical implications: Implementation of the proposed systematic approach to the
organization of occupational safety and health management at enterprises has shown its
simplicity and effectiveness, which can induce employers to finance reasonable and timely
preventive measures.
Originality/value: The method has been improved by decreasing the discreteness step
in the assessment of industrial risk components, which has increased its accuracy; by
developing a mathematical model for calculating the probability of a hazard, taking into
account the frequency with which workers are exposed to danger, which eliminates the need
to involve experts for an expert assessment at this stage.
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