Relationship study between the student learning approach in the occupational safety and health field and acquired competencies

Purpose: To search for training methods for specialists in industrial safety, environmental and occupational safety and health in conditions of insufficient (or absent) laboratory support and to study the relationship between the student learning approach and acquired competencies. Design/methodology/approach: To study modern advances in industrial safety, environmental and occupational safety and health and training methods for specialists a systematic literature review approach has been used. For publications from 2017, queries were asked through keywords and safety related topics. To relationship study between the student learning approach and acquired competencies a student survey on random sampling has been used. A total of 112 students of the 3rd and 4th year of study at the university were interviewed. Findings: The results of the survey showed that the students’ number who simultaneously successfully answered theoretical questions and completed practical tasks is 33.8% from the group with theoretical training and 75% from the group that was trained in the workplace. The relationship between the groups with a visit to the existing enterprise and acquired competencies was justified by the association coefficient and contingency coefficient that are 0.7 and 0.4 respectively. Research limitations/implications: A student’s survey was conducted at only one university. Questions were asked only according to the curriculum of the course “Labour Protection”. No survey for other training courses conducted. Practical implications: The research results are reasonable and can be applied at universities to improve the educational process of training specialists. Originality/value: It was proposed that students be trained using existing enterprises as a laboratory base and by the methods of statistics mathematical processing was substantiated the proposal feasibility

Specific Structural and Logical Model of Emergency Management

The work is devoted to solving one of the specific aspects of managing terrorist emergencies – an urgent scientific problem of our time. To achieve this goal, the work initially provides an analysis of the stages of development of emergency situations. It is shown that emergencies are objective (existing regardless of the attitude towards them) spatio-temporal processes, each of which is conventionally divided into five stages, namely: everyday accumulation of negative factors; extreme development of a negative factor; catastrophic event; elimination of the consequences of this event and their remote consequences. They occur in vehicles, man-made and natural objects, areas of the territory, water basins and mountains, cities and administrative regions. The type of each emergency is tied to a certain catastrophic event that can happen, is happening or has already happened. Then a prototype is considered - a typical structural - logical model of emergency management, which consists of six blocks. This is monitoring the situation (collecting everyday factors), identifying risk (detecting an extreme factor), analyzing risk (forecasting and modeling an emergency), preparing options for management decisions, making a decision and communicating it to executors. The subsequent impact on the situation (control object), through the structure of performers, closes the control loop, providing a continuous control process in the interests of preventing catastrophic events. On the basis of the prototype, a specific structural and logical model for managing an emergency of a terrorist nature caused by the detection of a small explosive device has been developed. It consists of thirteen blocks. This is situation monitoring, risk identification, warning and evacuation of people, search and identification of an explosive device, an explosive device, a dummy, a safe object, making a decision to use a special dome, preparatory measures, neutralizing an explosive device, localizing the consequences of neutralization, making a decision to resume and the work of the object, the impact on the situation. The location of the blocks at ten hierarchical levels, connected by logical links, provides the collection of information about the state of the object of a mass gathering of people through the elements of the monitoring system and impact on the object through the system of executors, providing a continuous management process in the interests of minimizing the consequences of terrorist events