CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS OF WORK-RELATED INCIDENTS AND VOCATIONAL DISEASES IN THE KEMEROVO REGION

Abstract

The current paper features the statistical data on injuries and accidents at enterprises of Kuzbass for the last five years in their mutual comparison. It gives an analysis of the factors contributing to a sharp decrease in industrial injuries with simultaneous growth of coal and other mineral resources extraction and statistics of occupational diseases of workers in the Kemerovo region for various industries. The assessment is performed on the basis of data analysis. The research reveals that the region’s indicator in this aspect is 7–8 times higher than that in other regions of the Russian Federation. The study shows an underrepresented effectiveness of the pre-shift medical examinations at hazardous production facilities and poor professional examinations of patients due to the federal funding reduction. In addition, the paper considers accidents that are not related to production, including deaths in the workplace for reasons of general illnesses, alcohol or drug poisoning, suicide, etc. It involves data characterizing the dynamics of costs for labor protection measures in the Kemerovo region for the last 19 years.