The article deals with the issue of technogenic safety of grain processing enterprises. The legislative background of this issue is considered – the laws of Ukraine, regulatory legal acts. The grain processing industry contains a significant number of high-risk objects, potentially hazardous objects, where high-risk works are carried out. The most common emergencies and accidents found in the grain processing industries are those related to the explosion and fire hazard. The factors of fire and explosion and the fire hazard of enterprises for storage and processing of grain raw materials are given. The potential sources of ignition of grain raw materials and grain products, the causes of explosions of the dust air, gas-air or hybrid mixtures are specified. The list of the most common places and reasons for the ignition sources and explosions in technological structures and buildings, and the ways of flame propagation are given. The main dangerous factors that arise in the accident and the most fire-dangerous buildings of the grain-processing industry are presented. The grain-processing enterprises carry out high-risk works, which are covered by the special requirements, observance of which protects against accidents, but the level of occupational injuries, including those with deadly repercussions, remains high in the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine. One of the main causes of accidents resulting in death is the lack of permits for the execution of works and operation of equipment, machinery, mechanisms and high-risk objects. The works for the fulfilment of which the employer must have permission to hazardous work and the operation (use) of high-risk machines, machinery, equipment or declaration conformity of the material and technical resources to the requirements of occupational safety legislation are defined. The analysis of the hazards of grain processing industry enterprises helps to identify all possible emergencies and accidents. This is a compulsory procedure for the emergency response plan. The plans for localization and liquidation of the consequences of accidents in high-risk objects are developed for adjustment and coordination of the actions of the authorities and civil defence forces of the enterprise, institution, organization, whichowns or uses at least one high-risk object in case of threat or occurrence of emergencies. The plans are developed and approved by a legal entity or an individual, which owns or uses at least one high risk object, as well as enterprise, institution or organization that plans to operate or operates at least one high-risk object.

The article deals with pressing issues of providing employees of grain processing enterprises with personal protective equipment (PPE). The presence of hazardous and harmful production factors in such enterprises requires the employer to use these remedies as one of the methods of protection of workers in conditions where safety of work cannot be ensured by the design of equipment, the organization of the production process and the means of collective protection. The authors of the article analysed the existing legal documents, according to which the employer is obliged to organize the acquisition, issuance and maintenance of individual funds in working order, which would protect the worker from the effects of industrial hazards, as well as pollution and adverse weather conditions. The modern classification of industrial PPEs (depending on destination), which should be used in grain processing industries, is given. The grounds, rules for providing and designing personal protective equipment are considered. The choice of the specific type of PPE for the grain processing industry should be made taking into account the safety requirements for the process or type of work. The obligations of the employer to provide workers with personal protective equipment, including the procedure and rules for issuing, inspecting, replacing PPIs, with reference to applicable regulatory documents, are disclosed in detail. A list of duties of an employee to use personal protective equipment is also provided. As a practical example, the distribution of PPE by main occupations of employees of grain processing enterprises in accordance with the "Minimum safety and health requirements for the use of personal protective equipment in the workplace by employees" is presented.

The article is devoted to the topical problem of controlling the contamination of grain products with agricultural pests at the facilities of the grain processing industry. The authors consider the use of one of the most effective methods of disinfection of grain products - fumigation, which, provided it is carried out competently and in a timely manner, avoids unwanted losses of grain and grain products. The characteristics of the main chemicals that are widely used as fumigants are presented. The article summarizes fumigants used in advanced countries of the world and are an alternative to the banned methyl bromide. A brief overview of modern fumigants allowed by the legislation of Ukraine is given, the existing problems of the domestic market of pesticides are revealed. Given that the effectiveness of fumigation depends on compliance with the technology of fumigation, special attention in the article is paid to the procedure for disinfection of grain products by fumigants. The authors analyse in detail the regulatory framework of this issue, safety rules, the use of personal protective equipment. The characteristic features and consequences of harmful effects of fumigants on the human body human body and the environment in the conditions of changing the order of disinfection of grain products are revealed. All grain processing enterprises have strict safety requirements for fumigation and degassing works. Training of experienced specialists is one of the important prerequisites for the safety of disinfection, so this article suggests ways to solve the problem of staff training. Emphasis is placed on the need to improve the regulatory mechanisms for regulating the quality control of both fumigants and fumigation works.

The article analyzes one of the opportunities for the enhancement of the efficiency of grain processing production - improvement of working conditions through the certification of the workplaces. Such action is the component of the sectorial program for development of a safety status, occupational health and the production environment, which is the task of each sectoral ministry. The grain processing branch of the agroindustrial complex demonstrates continuous and stable growth over the past decades. It creates additional workplaces, provides employment of the population, and preserves the labor resources of the country. However, the leading branch of agroindustrial complex has no sectorial program for improvement of safety status at the workplaces. As a result, the agroindustrial complex is the third largest in work-related incidents for last years. The reasons and circumstances of incidents are stated. The improvement of the situation is the certification of workplaces, which exercises the worker’s right to healthy and safe working conditions, benefits and compensation for work in adverse working conditions. The legal and regulatory framework for certification of workplaces, the composition of the certification committee, and the procedure for certification are given. The certification identifies the workplaces with the adverse working conditions, where it is necessary to take the first-priority measures for their improvement; the workplaces, production, jobs, professions and positions, for the employees of which it is proposed to establish benefits and compensations at the expense of the enterprise; confirms the right of employees to benefits and compensations stipulated by the legislation. The article deals with the adaptation of the European approach to the organization of monitoring of the influence of production factors on the safety and health of the person, which serves as the basis of new methodological recommendations for the certification of workplaces for working conditions. The list of jobs with heavy, harmful and dangerous work conditions at the grain processing enterprises is offered. The mistakes and disadvantages in the course of certification are stated. The employees of the food industry and agricultural processing sustain the occupational injuries due to labor process factors such as the severity and intensity of labor. In most cases, the causes of accidents (up to 80%) have organizationalarrangement nature, including failure to certificate the non workplaces for working conditions (or violation of the legislation on the certification of workplaces).