Personal protective equipment not only preserves the life and health of workers, but also increases workforce productivity. Modern technologies for the production of personal protective equipment make it possible to create effective protection against injuries and occupational diseases. Interview with Vladimir Kotov, president of the Association of Designers, Manufacturers and Suppliers of Personal Protective Equipment, on the implementation of legislative initiatives, on how the personal protective equipment market is developing, why personal protective equipment manufacturers need an association, on what are the difficulties, prospects and strategic goals for the development of the association, is presented.

The use of personal protective equipment is a prerequisite for personnel working in industrial enterprises. The lack of personal protective equipment when performing work, as well as the non-use of PPE by employees entails an increase in injuries and an increase in the number of accidents in industrial enterprises.

The problem of counterfeit personal protective equipment is relevant since the life and health of millions of workers, whose jobs are connected with harmful and dangerous production factors, depend on personal protective equipment.

The training center, created on the basis of the Engineering Competency Center, will become an educational platform where employees of enterprises can be trained in installation and trial-fit of the latest IT equipment, construction process, smart management of field work, AI-applications.

An integrated approach to ensuring occupational health and safety in Transneft North, JSC, organizational measures to ensure occupational safety, production supervision over the working conditions is considered. A program of measures aimed at preventing morbidity in workers, improving working conditions and improving health of employees is presented.

The experience in the field of occupational health and safety, ways to improve the system of occupational health and safety management is presented. Approach to promoting the role of occupational health and safety in the Vuktyl Gas Pipeline Management Directorate of main gas pipelines of Gazprom Transgaz Ukhta, the Republic of Komi, is considered.

Despite the fact that the rules for ensuring safety in enterprises are fixed in legislative acts and are respected by employees, occupational injuries of varying degrees are found everywhere in oil production and refining enterprises. In this regard, oil and gas enterprises are looking for new methods of ensuring safety, in particular, they visualize accidents in potentially hazardous areas.

Explanations are given by experts of executive authorities on the issues of conducting electronic auctions for state and municipal procurement of services related to special assessment of working conditions (SAWC), certification of working conditions, conducting assessment for similar workplaces, assessing working conditions of office workers, on the features of mandatory pension insurance for workers according to the results of the assessment, as well as other issues related to the influence of the results of the assessment of working conditions on the legal relations between workers and employers.

In certain situations, it may be necessary to suspend an employee from work. This is a temporary measure that does not entail a change in the employment contract or its termination.

The report on the results of the third stage of assessment of working conditions and occupational safety is evidence that employment and labour laws are being implemented: control over the state of working environment and occupational safety is organized in workplaces. It is considered how to draw up and fill in the report, what mandatory elements and why it should contain.

An assessment of the occupational risk to the health of workers of main professions — bunker operator, crusher operator, sintering operator, unloader of hot sinter and regulator of hot returns — was carried out in the sintering plant of one of the metallurgical plants of the Ural region.

The article analyses economic entities operating in the Bryansk Oblast in the context of economic activity types and forms of ownership. The legislative support of measures related to occupational safety and health is considered. The level of safety of working conditions in the workplaces of economic entities and the factors that negatively affect the workflow in enterprises are analysed. The measures taken to prevent injuries in the workplace and occupational diseases are critically evaluated. The expenses of the state and economic entities related to the violation of occupational safety are detailed. Measures to reduce these expenses and increase the level of occupational safety in workplaces are proposed.