The algorithms for drawing up annual plans of inspections performed by Rospotrebnadzor’s regional organizations within the framework of risk-based model

Abstract

The existing model of control and surveillance activities is based on a procedure that involves assigning activities performed by juridical persons or private entrepreneurs and (or) production facilities used by them in these activities into a specific risk category or a specific hazard class (category). The goal of the present work was to develop and improve algorithms for drawing up annual plans of inspections performed by Rospotrebnadzor’s territorial organizations within the framework of the risk-based model. For the first time, we have formulated conceptual and mathematical statement of the problem of planning control and surveillance activities performed by Rospotrebnadzor. This allowed us, among other things, to consider history of violations (integrity of a given subject) over a specific period and availability of objects for inspections. The latter is described with several parameters that include both regional peculiarities (a distance between objects, quality of road networks) and “complexity” of checking a particular object. When analyzing the mathematical statement, we identified certain model parameters that had the greatest influence on a solution to the problem, that is, the most sensitive parameters that should be regulated with special care if we want to make control and surveillance activities more effective. We have created planning algorithms with preset parameter values (scenario forecasting programs) and tested them at the regional level. We have developed three criteria for comparing these algorithms: coverage of a number of subjects that are to be inspected; coverage of a number of objects that are to be inspected; coverage by the total risk. The testing results indicate that the combined algorithm has higher coverage rates since in this case not all objects are inspected when a given subject is being checked. Consequently, this allows reducing overall labor costs required to perform an inspection. The suggested approaches give an opportunity to achieve more effective distribution and use of resources allocated by Rospotrebnadzor for scheduled inspections.