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The results of the authors’ research in more than 600 organizations have shown the labor protection specialist competence influence on the occupational risk management system state and the overall labor protection management system. It is revealed that the leading role in the labor conditions and safety improving strategy choosing and formation, as well as in the scientifically based method of professional risk assessment belongs to a labor protection specialist with a certain competence. The paper describes 16 occupational safety specialists’ professional competence levels and the main factors that determine their formation. The possibilities and abilities of specialists’ with different professional competence levels to assess professional risks are considered and presented in tabular form. About 100 data of different approaches and methods for assessing occupational risks are given, from which only a competent occupational safety specialist can choose the best method for his organization. His decision influences not only the assessing and managing professional risks procedure costs, determined by the particular method choosing, but also the overall occupational safety management system effectiveness in the organization. The conducted research has shown a significant occupational safety competent specialists role in ensuring the professional risks management in the organization and allowed to link his capabilities in assessing professional risks with his professional competence level. This information can motivate the employer to pay attention to the labor protection specialists’ role in ensuring the industrial safety and take care of their timely skills improvement.

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The article describes the system of modern professional education. Today includes practical training, the use of modern technologies, the use of communication technologies and the use of the experience of practicing specialists with extensive experience in these areas. The information provided indicates the possibility of a qualitative increase in the level of competence of technosphere safety specialists in higher educational institutions. Cloud resource resources can effectively advance in the implementation of state policy in the field of a competency-based approach to training specialists in the field of technosphere security.

When designing and operating machine-building facilities, their operation reliability is significant. The quantitative measure of reliability is production risks. The article proposes a mathematical model to determine probabilities of unfavorable events: the occurrence of a risk factor at a given time interval at some point in time; a worker's exposure at a given workplace in the adverse event area; negative changes in the worker's ability to fulfill his production duties. The technique to define production risks based on the knowledge of likelihood of adverse events occurrence is resulted. Examples of the application method for solving safety management problems of a typical technological operation of assembling an all-in-one connection have been presented.