Open AccessAssessment of the economic efficiency of occupational safety and health measures
Author(s) -
A. B. Elkin,
I. A. Evseeva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
xxi vek: tehnosfernaâ bezopasnostʹ/xxi vek. tehnosfernaâ bezopasnostʹ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2500-1582
pISSN - 2500-1574
DOI - 10.21285/2500-1582-2021-2-157-167
Subject(s) - productivity , occupational safety and health , risk analysis (engineering) , economic efficiency , quality (philosophy) , business , economic cost , production (economics) , unit (ring theory) , environmental economics , economics , economic growth , medicine , market economy , philosophy , mathematics education , neoclassical economics , mathematics , epistemology , pathology , macroeconomics
The issue of occupational safety is studied by assessing working conditions and calculating the economic effect of labor protection measures. The paper describes criteria for improving the economic efficiency by increasing the level of labor protection. It describes measures aimed to ensure the occupational safety and health of workers. The economic efficiency of measures aimed to improve working conditions and ensure the safety is calculated on the example of a steam generation unit. The methodology for calculating technical, economic and social indicators of labor protection takes into account the costs of improving safety and calculating the economic damage caused by accidents. The methodology can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of industrial measures, and takes into account the social effect of labor protection and envi ronmental protection measures. To calculate the effectiveness, the cost of losses, damage, localization costs, environmental damage, and measures is calculated. The occupational safety assurance measures can reduce the cost of production due to the increased labor productivity and improved quality of working capacities in favorable working conditions. An objective assessment of the measures aimed to improve safety conditions contributes to the development of recommendations and can justify management decisions made to ensure the occupational safety.