ERGONOMICS OF PROFESSIONAL RISKS MANAGEMENT
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https://doi.org/10.33042/2522-1809-2022-6-173-170-177Keywords:
risk, management, ergonomics, preventive measures, cognitive stressAbstract
In the modern working environment, the performance of professional tasks mostly depends on the physiological and cognitive abilities of employees, adaptive and mental processes. From these abilities and processes depend on information processing. Emphasized attention is placed on the fact that acceptable working conditions, high work productivity and a high level of well-being of employees are interconnected elements. Therefore, it is important to manage the conditions of cognitive and physiological stress in order to reduce their harmful consequences for individual employees, teams, organizations, etc.
To improve the effectiveness of risk management, a four-step approach is proposed, which involves accounting for occupational hazards, dangerous and harmful occupational factors at the workplace; providing the opportunity of any employee to contact the group of rapid response to hazards in case of occurrence or change of dangerous and harmful occupational factors, growth of occupational risks, appearance of new hazards, etc. during the work shift; introducing a discussion with justification of preventive and protective actions to reduce professional risks; application of measures for the prevention of dangerous situations (conducting supervision, audits and self-assessment of the activities of employees at workplaces).
Systematicity is the main principle of ergonomics used to develop an algorithm for the step-by-step implementation of the process of managing professional risks. It`s consists of defining as a complete system - the set of all components of the labor activity of employees, which would reduce the impact on the physiological and cognitive potential of the employee.
Forms of a hazard guide, a hazard notification card and a safety audit report have been developed. It will reduce the time to learn the specified procedures due to a conscious attitude to one's own activities at the workplace.
Reasonable measures to increase the effectiveness of professional risks management based on the step-by-step performance of certain actions by employees are oriented to increasing awareness of safety at the workplace.
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