Priority goals of the occupational safety management in Ukraine during the pandemic
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2021
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The Academy of Management and Administration in Opole
Abstract
Ukrainian companies have been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
in several areas, and occupational safety is no exception. Every year the number of enterprises of
both state and private ownership with harmful and dangerous working conditions grows. It should
be noted that due to the deterioration of the financial condition and material and technical base of
enterprises, which has been observed over the past almost two decades, working conditions in
most of them have also deteriorated, as confirmed by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
Underestimation and ignoring the factors required for appropriate safe working conditions cause
irreparable damage to the health of workers, negatively affect the level of productivity.
The problems of the working conditions, occupational safety, and the main reasons that
contribute to the decline of these indicators in Ukraine are investigated. The state of labor and
labor protection conditions in terms of workplace accidents in Ukraine are analyzed. It is
established by analysis of the official sources that Ukraine holds a high position of occupational
mortality among other countries. It is evident, based on statistical data, that the organizational
shortcomings of the labor protection system are the main threat to the health and life of workers.
A number of measures that the Government is going to take to overcome the high level of injuries
and unsatisfactory state of labor conditions and labor protection at enterprises are analyzed. The
morbidity of medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic was analyzed and the need to include
the infection with the COVID-19 into the “List of occupational diseases” was emphasized. It is
proposed to adopt the practice of European countries, namely the innovative model of labor
protection incentives, which contains many economic incentives that can positively affect the
improvement of the workplace environment to reduce the level of injuries and ensure the proper
state of labor protection.
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occupational safety, occupational injuries, working conditions, professional disease, COVID-19 pandemic
Citation
Priority goals of the occupational safety management in Ukraine during the pandemic / Nataliia Danylevych, Svetlana Rudakova, Liudmyla Shchetinina, Oksana Poplavska // Modern management: theories, concepts, implementation : monograph / The Academy of Management and Administration in Opole ; ed.: M. Duczmal, T. Nestorenko. – Opole, 2021. – P. 8–15.