The role of personnel in ensuring safety at coal mining enterprises

The tasks of the personnel management system include the ability of each employee to maintain the necessary production behavior to achieve the goals set by the company. The analysis of the state of industrial safety at coal mining enterprises showed that, despite the regulatory and methodological framework, the results of the restructuring of the coal industry, the methods of managing the risk of accidents and injuries are not fully effective. However, injuries at coal mining enterprises have decreased, one of the reasons for the decline is the constant reduction in the number of personnel. And the main cause of injuries is still the «human factor». The existing unsatisfactory production discipline and the lack of the required appropriate qualifications of personnel at all levels of the personnel hierarchy leads to constant systematic violations of industrial safety requirements. It is established that the occurrence of accidents and injuries is associated not only with the mistakes of workers, but also managers. The share of the fault of erroneous actions of managers at the management stages and workers when performing technological processes in an emergency situation is revealed. The analysis of the consequences of errors at all stages of management is carried out. The article presents the personnel management system developed by the author, the algorithm for managing the technological process. The main function of the personnel management system is the development of personnel.

Vinogradova O.V. The role of personnel in ensuring safety at coal mining enterprises. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2021;(2—1):64-76. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236-1493-2021-210-64-76.

Vinogradova O.V., Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Associate Professor of the Department of BAGP, NUST «MISiS», Moscow, Russia, e-mail: sapik@mail.ru.

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