The effectiveness evaluation of labor safety activities using driver’s workplace as an example

¹ South Ural State Agrarian University, 454080, Chelyabinsk, Russia
² South Ural University of Technology, 454000, Chelyabinsk, Russia

^* Corresponding author: vetochka.79@mail.ru

Abstract

There are many methods to determine the economic efficiency of implementing the labor safety activities. But in most cases, they cannot completely take into account the aggregate change in the effects of harmful and dangerous occupational factors on the human body before and after the implementation of relevant measures, and therefore they cannot give a fairly objective economic evaluation. This primarily relates to non-stationary workplaces, where production-related factors can be changed to a large extent during one shift. Therefore, it is expedient to evaluate economic efficiency for such jobs on the basis of the analysis of workers disease rate, which depends on the impact of all production-related factors on the human body. It is possible to distinguish production-related workers disease from the entire morbidity of employees including occupational injuries using the method of integrated assessment of working conditions through the losses of working time from morbidity with temporary incapacity for work (integrated assessment methodology). This technique can be used to calculate the economic efficiency when implementing labor safety activities at non-stationary workplaces (e.g. driver’s workplace).