Standardization of concepts and terms for accident rate and emergency risks in the coal mines and build industry

In the article, the issues of terminology of technique philosophy related to the notions of a concept, a risk and an uncertainty are considered. It is noted that a concept in terms of philosophy is considered as a category of human thinking, of how a man being a subject perceives the environment: objects, processes, actions of other people. From philosophical point of view, a concept is characterized by four levels; "consciousness - authorial concept - concept of interpreter - collective consciousness". Definition of the levels can differ, but their sense remains unchanging. A concept is considerably wider than a notion and is syncretic by its content. Basic criterion, by which it is possible to distinguish between "a concept" and "a notion", is simple enough: if we can give a clear (of course, subjective) definition, then it is a notion, if we cannot – it is a concept. A concept becomes a notion when a subject has set it forth (authorial concept), listeners (readers) have interpreted it (interpreter concept), discussed and created a collective concept – after this the concept is formalized as notions. Good example of such chain of a concept transforming into totality of publicly-meaningful, clear and suitable for the practical use results is defending of a scientific dissertation. A risk is considered in philosophical understanding: it is impossible to formulate any universal definition for it as a risk is always subjective and inherent to a concrete participant of some technological or public process in concrete field. A risk should not be mixed up with an uncertainty, as a risk is a method for overcoming an uncertainty. A risk is a function of an uncertainty which does not have clear definition and can be estimated only partially. A risk relates to a subjective uncertainty only: an objective uncertainty should be only taken into account and cannot be an object of control as it cannot be diminished by way of experiments or analysis of statistics. A risk in philosophical understanding can be only a basis for further concretization by engineering sciences: there and only there it is possible to try (and it has been already partially realized) to work out methods for assessing a risk and use the obtained results for improving reliability of production and minimizing the accident rate.

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Terms for Management of Occupational Risks in the Draft Law of Ukraine "On Safety and Health of Employees at Work"

Tsopa,

Yavorska,

Cheberiachko

et al. 2023

LPPU

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Consider the requirements of international regulatory acts regarding the management of occupational risks in occupational health and safety systems (hereinafter referred to as OHSS) and determine their compliance with the draft Law on "Safety and Health of Workers at Work". To achieve this goal, the comparative legal method was used, which is the basis of the unification and harmonization of law through international treaties, as well as the method of interdisciplinary synthesis, which made it possible to reveal data on the structural properties of objects of different terms. The requirements of the main documents on risk management in the field of PPE for the draft Law on "Safety and Health of Employees at Work" were analyzed. It was determined that the guiding principles of occupational safety and health management systems - ILO-OSH 2001 (ILO-OSH 2001) have the greatest influence on the development of the draft law. The second edition, 2009, which led to the use of outdated terms, since a significant proportion of Ukrainian enterprises are certified for compliance with the requirements of the ISO 45001:2018 standard or work in accordance with its requirements and, accordingly, use the terms, definitions and methods of occupational risk management set out in this standard . It is proposed to replace the terms and phrases related to the management of occupational risks in the draft Law on "Safety and Health of Workers at Work" based on the requirements of international and domestic regulatory acts in the field of occupational safety and occupational health. In particular, use the words effectiveness instead of efficiency, elimination of danger instead of elimination of risk, prevention of incident instead of prevention of risk. The scientific novelty consists in the substantiation of the terminology related to the provision of risk management, namely, the author's definition of the terms precautionary measures and acceptable risk is provided. Recommendations have been developed for the replacement of terms, phrases and expressions in the text of the draft Law on "Safety and Health of Workers at Work". In particular, "minimization of occupational hazards" to "reduction of the number of occupational hazards, dangerous occupational factors and harmful occupational factors."

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Standardization of concepts and terms for accident rate and emergency risks in the coal mines and build industry

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Terms for Management of Occupational Risks in the Draft Law of Ukraine "On Safety and Health of Employees at Work"

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