Labour Protection as a Component of Effective Management of a Modern Enterprise

Abstract

Occupational safety issues, especially in a large enterprise, constitute key components of the social and labour sphere, which largely affect the operation of the entire enterprise. In modern economic environment, where every company aims to produce competitive, high-quality products and make a profit, maintaining the health and efficiency of each employee is a top priority. Any socially oriented enterprise is interested, first and foremost, in reducing the level of accidents, injuries, industrial and occupational diseases of employees. The purpose of the study was to identify and assess the role of labour protection and industrial safety in the development of an effective management system and enterprise activities. In the process of research the method of comparison, analogy, formalization, structural analysis, dialectical method of cognition was used. As a result of the study, the authors determined that the modern organisation of occupational safety should be aimed at effective management of industrial safety of all technological processes and international standards, including OHSAS 18001, ISO 4501, ISO 9001, which is the basis of effective management in general and helps identify and prevent the occurrence of adverse factors and, as a consequence, minimises the occurrence of injuries and occupational diseases, loss of life, health and ability to work in general, allows identifying and preventing the occurrence of adverse factors