The article deals with engineering and technological problems of improving the environmental safety of crop production as a complex biotechnical system, for the environment, consumers of crop production and machine operators who ensure production in the field. It is noted that the impact of agriculture on the environment and humans is not only promoting global warming, participation in environmental pollution by pesticides and undigested remnants of mineral and organic fertilizers, the pollution of the production of field crops with residual amounts of pesticides and food is not absorbed nitrogen, toxic threat environment in the area of the machine, but unsustainable use of non-renewable resources, the availability of which depend on agricultural technologies. The main directions of minimizing environmental pollution and reducing dependence on non-renewable resources as a result of agricultural activities are shown.

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The article deals with the problems of increasing the economic efficiency of agricultural enterprises by improving working conditions, reducing the level of exposure to harmful and dangerous production factors. The purpose of the article is to analyze methodological approaches to forecasting possible economic losses of agricultural enterprises due to the presence of harmful or dangerous working conditions and to develop organizational and management solutions to reduce these losses. Economic services of agricultural enterprises need to have a methodology for assessing real economic losses due to unfavorable working conditions at enterprises, which will give employers an understanding that the costs of labor protection and safety not only pay off, but also give a significant economic effect and contribute to improving the profitability of production and allow them to make informed management decisions. It is shown that forecasting economic damage from occupational diseases and industrial injuries, accidents is a complex task, but it is quite solvable on the basis of the procedure for assessing and managing occupational risks and applying known patterns of crop losses or animal productivity due to violations of agrotechnical deadlines or animal maintenance regime due to the absence of an injured employee at the workplace.

Modern economic conditions, intensive modernization and digitalization of production, and the level of technologies require a change in the approach to training in the field of occupational safety and health. It is necessary to improve the methodology and organization of the educational process, training programs, material and technical base and logistics. Due to the appearance of Generation Z, the generation «born with gadgets in their hands», there was a huge gap between generations X, Y and Z (51–65, 31–50 and 18–30 years). The development of programs and training methods should consider generational psychophysiological features: the format, volume and speed of perception of information flows differ among employees of different generations. The main aspects of the methodology that are recommended to be used in the development of training programs and methods are considered and justified. The first aspect is the change in perception due to digitalization of the society and economy, as well as the use of modern means of communication. The «bandwidth» of intelligence was increased: faster and more data is perceived per unit of time, but the ability to concentrate was decreased. In Generation Z, in comparison with X and Y, the ability to hold attention on one object decreased from an average of 12 to 8 seconds. Constant communication in gadgets and the specific format of information on the Internet formed the new psychophysiological features: to operate with abstractions, pictures; «scan» the text, and not read in the usual sense of the word, etc.

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