Causes of employees occupational diseases according to the social survey's results

The relevance of the topic is due to a large number of unfavorable production factors that affect working conditions in the workplace, resulting in occupational diseases in the working population. The article presents the results of the analysis of the causes of occupational diseases of employees of the Chelyabinsk region caused by unfavorable production conditions. The paper presents the methodological basis of problems in the field of labor protection, as well as occupational diseases. Under labor protection, the author understands a set of measures aimed at improving the organization of labor, in order to create the most comfortable working conditions for workers. Failure to implement this set of measures leads to an increase in occupational diseases. Occupational diseases - health abnormalities caused by exposure to adverse factors of the working environment. The article presents the data of self-conducted sociological studies of the causes of occupational diseases, conducted in November-December 2019. Data analysis revealed the main cause of occupational diseases. The main cause of occupational diseases is called «dirty production» (30,7 %). Then there are «noise, vibration, electromagnetic fields» (18,5 %); «physical overload» (17,0 %); «mental overload» (14,4 %); «immobility, visual stress» (13,3 %); «other causes» (6,1 %). The main causes of diseases are shown, the influence of unfavorable factors of the production environment on the appearance of occupational diseases in people engaged in labor activity is evaluated.