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Purpose. To establish the relationship between the development of a safety culture in an organisation and the fulfilment of occupational safety requirements. Methodology. To solve the tasks set, we use the method of scientific synthesis, which allows us to obtain new knowledge as a result of combining previously dismembered parts of the subject into a single whole, to determine mutual expectations in occupational health and safety (OHS) management systems (MS). Findings. It is proposed to determine the level of safety culture of an organisation on the basis of five stages: indifference, reaction, dependence, independence, interdependence, which characterises a change in the awareness of employees of the organization to fulfil the requirements for OHS of employees. A process for determining the level of safety culture is proposed by identifying the attitude to the fulfilment of OHS requirements by an OHS specialist, a manager of a unit (organisation), employees’ self awareness and mutual assistance of employees to fulfil OHS requirements. The coefficient of fulfilment of the requirements for OHS of employees in a conditional unit was calculated, which allows determining the stage of development of safety culture and the contribution of each employee to the development of safety culture. A distribution of preventive measures to improve OHS level, based on the level of development of safety culture, is proposed. Originality. The relationship is identified between the coefficient of compliance with occupational safety requirements and employee health and the stages of development of safety culture, taking into account the impact on employee compliance from managers of a units, OHS specialists, selfawareness and mutual assistance through weighting coefficients. Practical value. Recommendations are developed to increase the effectiveness of OHS MS by strengthening the implementation of OHS requirements by changing their attitude to OHS issues, by introducing preventive measures in accordance with the development of safety culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. Development of a concept for improving the occupational safety in Ukrainian organizations based on the requirements of the EU Framework Strategy for occupational safety and health for the period 2021–2027. Methodology. To analyze the requirements of the EU Framework Strategy for Safety and Health at Work formalized content analysis was used, which is a qualitative-quantitative method for studying documents and consists in processing the text with further interpretation of the results. A generalized heuristic method was also applied, which through the use of common information bases, allowed the processing of information based on the use linear sequence of prescriptions intended for information processing, as well as methods of linguistic analysis of the text. In particular, words were determined using the etymological analysis of individual expressive elements of the language, inflections, rhythms, which made it possible to reveal the semantic load of the corresponding sentences in regulatory documents. Findings. A concept has been developed for improving the occupational safety and health management system of workers in Ukrainian organizations, which provides for the introduction of procedures for managing professional, corruption, psychosocial, epidemiological, military and ergonomic risks based on the developed state strategy for creating a safe and healthy workplace. To increase the effectiveness of the management system of occupational safety and health of employees in organizations, it is proposed to ensure the distribution of responsibilities of management subjects taking into account strategic, operational and linear management of occupational safety in the organization, which is based on the formation of transformational leaders with risk-oriented thinking. The components of the state strategy for a safe and healthy workplace have been developed, which contain a description of the mission, vision, set tasks and ways to solve them. Originality. The relationship is identified between measures to improve the management system of occupational safety and health of workers in organizations and the requirements of the EU Framework Strategy for occupational safety and health for the period 2021–2027, which made it possible to ensure the distribution of tasks between the proposed management equations. Practical value. Recommendations have been developed for the components of the national concept of a safe and healthy workplace, which contains requirements for the appointment of a state strategy in the field of occupational safety, development of the organization, identification of problems in the field of occupational safety, methods of their elimination and expected results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. To improve the approach to the development of a safe work system, one of the important elements of the occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) of employees at an enterprise. Methodology. The research is based on the “Safe Systems of Work”, which combines the content of safe procedures, which are determined taking into account the content of the worker’s production task when performing production activities, his/her competence in understanding the technological process and characteristics involved technological equipment. Findings. To reduce occupational diseases and industrial injuries at enterprises, it is proposed to implement the “Safe Systems of Work” (SSW) of “5 steps”: “analyse”, “summarize”, “anticipate”, “support”, “improve”, which will make it possible to identify occupational risks (OR) and justify the feasibility of reducing their impact on the worker during the performance of production activities. For the implementation of each step, a corresponding procedure is provided, which allows ensuring their implementation. It is proposed to carry out the OR evaluation procedure according to the “Tree Trunk Analysis” model, which is a section of the trunk of a tree divided into six parts which characterize the dangerous factors that affect the activity of the employee, the functioning of the technological equipment and the environment. A feature of the proposed approach is the establishment of zones of interaction between the following components of the proposed SSW: the worker and technological equipment, the worker and the environment, as well as the environment and technological equipment, which characterize the specified external and internal factors of influence on the SSW. Originality. The approach to the organization of SSW to reduce the level of OR during the performance of production activities has been improved based on the improvement of the OR management process, the identification of external and internal dangerous factors that affect the level of OR, the probability of the occurrence of a dangerous event and its degree of severity, taking into account changes, over time, in the conditions of performing professional activities: during stable work, during an emergency situation, during an accident and during martial law. Practical value. Improved labour protection instructions or maps of safe production processes can be applied at enterprises with the aim of better perception by employees of labour safety requirements and improvement of document flow at the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]