The modern world is impossible to imagine without digital technologies that are implemented in all areas of activity, including helping to address occupational safety. The purpose of this work was to consider the prospects and problems of implementation of information technology in the field of occupational safety, as well as ways to improve the use of digital technologies by health and safety professionals for more effective risk management and safety. Digitalization (digitalization) in labor protection is a transformation of OSH, which involves the use of digital technologies to optimize management, increase company productivity and improve working conditions and reduce the number of occupational diseases and accidents. The main procedures of digitalization, which are implemented in the field of labor protection, are highlighted. The main components of successful implementation of digital solutions in occupational safety are highlighted. The conditions for the introduction of digitalization in the management system of labor protection are formed. Various innovations, from process automation to the proliferation of field sensors and the transition to predictive analytics, will allow employees and organizations to make significant improvements in health and safety if they are able to take advantage of the opportunities that open up. In the coming years, there will be a shift from passive monitoring to specific recommendations that will give people software applications. Gadget data collected by gadgets will be used to assess occupational risk and occupational disease insurance. There are already examples of testing these technologies to increase productivity and reduce employee injuries. The considered technologies do not appear and are not used alone, the interconnected and complex, system approach is usually observed. Thus, all the tools listed in the introduction of digital technologies in the modernization of occupational safety management contribute to reducing the number of accidents.
It is worth noting that it is precisely industrial injuries that occupy a significant place among the causes of death in the world. The purpose of this work is to study the level of fatal and group injuries in Ukraine. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: 1) to study the effect of seasonality on the level of injuries; 2) to carry out clustering in order to identify homogeneous groups of regions that will characterize their greater or lesser impact on the level of fatal injuries in Ukraine. Considered in time the values of injury rates are not prone to seasonality. The impact of seasonality is noticeable only in certain industries that are directly related to external natural factors (construction or agro-industrial complex). Clustering, taking into account the regional and sectoral structure of Ukraine, identified five groups of regions. Of these, two clusters with a total of 20 regions account for 56% of occupational injuries and injuries. The remaining 44% are distributed between 4 regions. This is explained by the significant centralization of sectoral production and regional disproportion of socio-economic development of Ukraine. Thus, the most dangerous in terms of scale and level of fatal injuries are Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv and Kiev regions. The distribution of fatalities and cases of group injuries is significantly conditioned by the specialization and concentration of sectoral production in a particular region. However, no direct correlation was found between the values of the total number of the injured and the number of deaths. Identifying the causes that have a significant impact on the distribution of such cases, indicated that more than 80% of occupational injuries are related not to the high degree of danger of the manufacturing process itself, but to the employee's behavior, which explains the discrepancy between these indicators. Keywords: fatal and group injuries, clustering method.
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