OREANDA-NEWS. JSC “IDGC of Center” called 2007 “The Year of Work Safety and Safety Measures”. The main tasks of the year are to decrease the level of industrial injuries, keeping their staff healthy, avoid accidents with employees of contractors, as well as third parties on DGC units, reported the press-centre of JSC “IDGC of Center and North Caucasus”.

Approved programs on fulfillment of these tasks are focused on training the staff to work safely, providing it with all necessary facilities for protection, control and observing the labour protection rules and norms, detection and elimination of potentially dangerous places of running equipment in order to avoid injuries of employees and third persons.

General costs of measures on labour protection amounted to 199 million 832 thousand rubles in the first half year, 120 million 353 thousand rubles of them are for purchasing facilities for individual protection, tools and devices.

The working place certification according to work conditions is in progress. More than 24 thousand working places have been certified, that is more than 90% of existing ones, measures on elimination of detected remarks.

Analyzing the results of the first half year it is possible to state the decrease of the general level of industrial injuries by 21% (14 fatalities in the 1 half year of 2006 - 11 fatalities in 2007) in the service area of 21 DGC included into JSC “IDGS of Center” and by 45% (11 fatalities in the 1 half year of 2006 - 6 fatalities in 2007) in 11 DGC.

In spite of the taken measures on avoiding industrial injuries, improvement of work conditions, there are negative factors, such as growth of fatal injuries. The main reason of industrial injuries is non-compliance with labour protection rules and norms by the hurt themselves. There are cases, when staff was not equipped with necessary amount of individual protection facilities, low effectiveness of safety work monitoring, gross negligence of rules and norms at working places.

For the nearest future the tasks on work safety and safety measures are as follows: to provide the staff with protection facilities completely before autumn and winter periods start, development and introduction of work safety control system, adapted to existing conditions and a new structure, to increase control over keeping labour protection rules and norms. Fulfillment of the plans should create a base for realization of further plans on improving the work conditions and injury prevention.