Occupational safety savings: causes and consequences

The article considers the relations between the employer and the labor protection specialist, as well as the paradoxical situation that has recently arisen in many enterprises and which consists in the fact that there is a labor protection specialist in the organization, but there is no competently built labor protection management system, and therefore the problem of labor protection savings arising from this. The latter, in turn, becomes the cause of accidents and accidents at work. The authors presented an attempt to summarize the main points related to changing approaches in the field of labor protection: in terms of regulatory regulation; occupational risk assessments; changes in the emergence of various mechanisms of economic incentives for employers; increasing the number of jobs with harmful conditions; publication of recommendations on document management in the field of labor protection, etc. Attention was paid to the practice of inspections of supervisory authorities and the main points of the labor protection management system were summarized, on which employers are trying to save money. The points of direct participation of the occupational safety specialist in solving these problems are touched upon and described. Emphasis is placed on the fact that employers will have to observe the principle of reasonable and determine the necessary minimum of labor protection specialists, the main requirements for which should be their qualifications, ability to make independent decisions and skills to build and maintain the functioning of the labor protection management system.