From February 4 to 5, 2026, the International Congress of Health Disciplines was held, in which employees of our department participated online.
The congress is organized in cooperation with Anadolu University, Bilgecik Sheikh Edebali University, Eskisehir Osmangazi University of Medical Sciences, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Trabzon University, and others.
A separate section was devoted to occupational safety issues in manufacturing. It was in this section that our department staff, graduate students, and young scientists presented their reports. The topics of the reports and their authors are as follows: Analysis of Occupational Injuries in the Energy Sector Using the Example of Ukraine (Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Serhij VAMBOL, Senior Research Olena KUZMENKO, Junior Bachelor Bohdana VAMBOL) та Safety Assessments of Production Technologies Taking into Account the Criteria of Working Conditions and Risk Maps (Professor Serhij VAMBOL, Postgraduate student Oleksandr NESTERENKO).
It should be noted that the reports are based on the results of scientific work carried out at the Research Laboratory “Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection Technologies.” This is a research project included in the thematic plan (applied scientific research) of the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (term of implementation 02.2025 – 12.2026) “Organizational and technological support for the safety of technological processes based on working conditions and risk maps” № DR 0125U001516 (scientific supervisor O.O. Kuzmenko), as well as the completion of a dissertation research on the topic: “Organizational and technological support for the safety of machine production processes based on working conditions and risk maps” (postgraduate student O.V. Nesterenko).
The first report focused on the issue of occupational injuries in Ukraine’s energy sector. The study analyzed data from 2015 to 2023 on the level of occupational injuries in various sectors of the economy and the causes of accidents. The highest number of fatalities in the energy sector is associated with electric shock to personnel during maintenance and repair of electrical installations.
The number of accidents has increased significantly not only due to technological reasons related to the coronavirus pandemic, but also due to organizational reasons. Among the organizational reasons, the most common are violations of labor discipline – failure to comply with occupational safety instructions, failure to perform job duties, and violations of technological processes.
The next report was made in the field of assessing the safety of production technologies, taking into account the criteria of working conditions and risk maps. A concept of linear-sequential determination of occupational safety was proposed.
For a specific operation in a technological process, the first step is to identify occupational hazards. Next, working conditions are assessed, taking into account the identified hazards. The final stage is to identify the actual risks, which forms an overall picture of the safety of the process at a specific stage of production. When assessing the entire technological process, it is necessary to take into account the sequence and parallel execution of individual stages of production. In the context of occupational safety, the risk matrix can be expanded to analyze hazardous and harmful factors that affect the health and safety of employees. This approach combines the requirements of ISO 9001 with the principles of ISO 45001.
The presentations sparked interest among colleagues and researchers working in the field of safety and occupational health. The organizers and speakers of the section expressed their gratitude for the interesting presentations and encouraged further scientific research in this area.