With the introduction of a risk-based approach by the Russian Federal service for labour and employment in 2018, it is assumed that the more often a company violates labour law, the more often state inspectors will come to it. And the higher the risk category of the organization, the more often checks will be carried out. This means that employers have increased the need for up-to-date and reliable information about the state of labour protection in the organization. It is possible to meet this need by implementing automated information systems for managing all business processes, including personnel management and the occupational safety management system. Such systems will allow for the rapid collection, processing, recording and analysis of information. This paper considers the key points of the risk-based approach, existing proposals for automation of management processes, and formulated requirements for such systems considering the requirements of the inspection bodies.

Statutory regulation of processes managing safe working conditions includes the procedure of special assessment of working conditions. Implementation of this procedure involves processing considerable volume of input and output information by task performers and responsible parties. The volume of information depends on the level of management system structure, number of employees and kinds of working processes, equipment and materials involved in production. Introduction of digital technologies to regulation of special assessment process makes it possible to reduce labour input, optimize resources required for process implementation and lessen the costs of special assessment of working conditions.

Preserving the life and health of employees should be a priority task of a modern leader. It is possible to solve this problem through the use of digital technologies in the management of production processes. Smart solutions are an opportunity to improve production efficiency and the level of occupational safety of personnel, as well as reduce or even eliminate the incidence of injuries and deaths at work. The article discusses the concept of digital technologies in the field of industrial and industrial safety, analyzes the digital technologies currently in use and gives a forecast for the development of this direction for the field of labor protection.