Оccupational safety and health and preventive measures in coal industry

The article deals with the problem of safety of workers, including employees of coal industry; the need to improve the existing legislation in the mentioned field and to give more attention to preventive measures within occupational safety and health is determined.
The difference between labour and civil relations (working hours, overtime, off - hours, working place and so on), which influence the fact of recognition a person as a victim of industrial accident, is highlighted.
The mechanism of compensation for employers, who declined the number of working places with harmful conditions, is recommended; the provision stating, if during 5 years new working places with harmful conditions will appear, then pegged compensation has to be returned in proportion to the quantity of created working places with harmful working conditions in order to prevent abuse also is foreseen; the factors, influencing the condition of occupational safety and health, are detected.
The changes to current legislation concerning the involvement of the territorial authority of the State Labour Service of Ukraine to special commission for investigating and accounting the industrial accidents, occupational diseases and industrial crashes are offered. It is determined, that they will improve the legal quality of law of regulation and contribute to legal certainty in regulation of relations, concerning the procedure for investigating and accounting the industrial accidents, namely concerning the victim, who is a worker and a person, providing services under a civil contract simultaneously.

Kuzmenko G., Kuchma O., Sinyova L. Оccupational safety and health and preventive measures in coal industry. Modern approaches to knowledge management development: collective monograph. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020. P. 479-488.