Abstract

Working condition state studies in the coal industry are presented. It is noted that high manufacturability and coal enterprises industrial complex rates growth lead to the inevitable occurrence and concentration of harmful factors of the working environment at workplaces and, as a result, increase the likelihood of employees’ industrial and occupational diseases. Research confirms the high level of diseases caused by industrial factors at workplaces when conducting basic technological operations in coal mining by the open cast method. The main scientific task is the development, justification and implementation of measures to preserve the health of the nation, minimize the impact of harmful industrial and environmental factors on human health, the achievement of an optimal quality of life, the efficiency of production activities. Occupational morbidity in the Russian Federation directly depends on the employees’ state of working conditions. Data on working conditions make it possible to establish a correlation between the level of occupational morbidity and the employees’ working conditions. Timely detection of pathology forming risk is an important element of an employee life and health preserving system. Special attention is paid to the capacity for work preservation. Based on the conducted analysis of occupational morbidity in the Kemerovo Region for workers employed in the development of open-pit coal deposits, a risk assessment card was created. Improving working conditions, reducing occupational hazards in open cast mining allow to increase the labor economic efficiency, preserve the workers life and health, and solve the country’s social and demographic problems.

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