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The calculations show that the economic consequences of accidents are ten times more
expensive than the cost of preventing them.

Law of Ukraine "On Labor Protection" requires that every company has an Occupational
Health and Safety Management System (OHMS`), which must comply with the international
standard ISO 45001 "Occupational health and safety management systems - Requirements".
According to this standard, the planning of occupational safety measures should be based
not only on the compliance of the working conditions and safety at work with the requirements of
safety regulations but also on the basis of risk management of accidents, occupational injuries and
occupational diseases.
Risk management is carried out through the use of different techniques for identifying and
assessing risks in order to eliminate unacceptable risks. Many things have been done in this
direction, in particular, «The technique of assessing the degree of professional risk” – was
approved.
"Fundamentals of Occupational Safety" is a normative discipline, which is
studied in order to form in the future specialists with higher education the level of
knowledge, needed in their professional activity, in legal and organizational issues on
occupational safety, basics of physiology, industrial hygiene and sanitation, fire
safety.

The purpose of the discipline is to provide knowledge, skills, competences for
1) performing the effective professional activity by ensuring optimal
management of occupational safety at enterprises (objects of economic, economic
and scientific-educational activity),
2) formation of responsibility for personal and collective security among
students,
3) awareness of the need for full implementation of all measures to guarantee
safety at work.

According to this definition, the main sections of the discipline are formed:
- Legal and organizational basis of labor protection;
- Occupational hygiene and industrial sanitation;
- Worker safety;
- Fire safety.

"Occupational safety" is a discipline which is based on the general scientific, technical and
special disciplines "Introduction to the profession", "Higher Mathematics", "Physics",
"Chemistry", "Biology", "Metrology and standardization", "Materials resistance", "Electric
technology", "Industrial technology and equipment", "«Life Safety" etc.

The objective of the course is to study:
- Legal and regulatory framework of labor protection in Ukraine;
- Organizational and economic aspects of Occupational Safety;
- Impact of the working environment on humans;
- Acquiring the skills of analyzing and evaluating the state of OP at the
enterprise.

The subject of study: Protection of human health in the workplace.

The Law of Ukraine "On Labor Protection" gives the following definition of Occupational
Safety :

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