Open AccessLABOR PROTECTION IN BRANCHES: EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE OF NORMATIVE SUPPORT OF RISK-ORIENTED APPROACHES
Author(s) -
Oleg M. Yaroshenko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
fìnansovo-kreditna dìâlʹnìstʹ: problemi teorìì̈ ta praktiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2310-8770
pISSN - 2306-4994
DOI - 10.18371/fcaptp.v1i28.162687
Subject(s) - normative , legislation , european union , business , occupational safety and health , order (exchange) , labour law , work (physics) , public economics , public relations , risk analysis (engineering) , political science , labour economics , economics , economic policy , law , engineering , finance , mechanical engineering
It is considered a system of organization of labour protection in Ukraine and the normative principles of safety and health in the European Union in the article. It is analysed the European normative principles of providing a risk-oriented approach to labour protection based on the principle of “unity and differentiation” of legal regulation of labor protection. At the same time, the differentiation of the provision of labor protection at European enterprises, in contrast to domestic ones, is provided both in terms of the specifics of work organization in a particular field of economics and the differentiation of the implementation of a risk-oriented approach to ensuring the safety and health of large, medium and small businesses. The particular attention is given to the methodological support of employers from European authorities by providing them with recommendations on risk assessment on the workplace. It is stressed that European standards on occupational safety and health establish that the work environment in the workplace of worker should not only reduce and prevent the impact on physical health of workers of production factors, but also ensure the worker’s health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not only the absence of illness or infirmity. It is substantiated that in order to improve the organization of labour protection of workers in Ukraine, it is necessary to review existing approaches for creation of safe and healthy working conditions and implement a risk-oriented approach. The basis for such review should be the improvement of labour legislation in a part of the legal regulation of labour protection. In Ukraine, for organization of labour protection system, it is necessary to introduce a European experience of ensuring safe and healthy working conditions on the workplace. The improvement of domestic system of labor protection in general and labor protection in the economic sectors should be based on established normative minimum standards of safety and health at the workplace, and the differentiation of legal regulation of occupational safety should take into account the peculiarities of labor processes in the industries and create conditions for implementing a risk-oriented approach to safety and health at small and medium enterprises.