Faculty members of the department continue to actively provide career guidance this academic year regarding admission to the J4 «Occupational health and safety» major within the «Occupational health and safety» educational program. Although the vast majority of these events are conducted remotely for safety reasons due to the large-scale war with russia, which has been ongoing for five years now, some of them are still held in person. This has become possible thanks to the development of underground learning spaces for secondary school students in Kharkiv and the surrounding region.
Such an event was held on March 24, 2026, in the underground classroom space of Kharkiv lyceum № 138 for students in grades 9-11 from Kharkiv lyceums № 28 and 103 and Kharkiv gymnasium № 98. Several Kharkiv universities participated in the event, with NTU «KhPI» playing a leading role; faculty members from several departments took part: «Occupational safety and environmental protection», «Computational Mathematics and Data Analysis», «Computer Engineering and Programming», «Computer and Radioelectronic Control and Diagnostic Systems» and others.
To organize this event, faculty and staff prepared career guidance posters and promotional brochures, as well as equipment for monitoring hazardous and harmful workplace factors for demonstration purposes: the Mestek IR01C pyrometer; the VTMETER VT-816V digital vane anemometer and the MS-13 cup anemometer, the Yu-116 lux meter, and the GM 3120 electromagnetic radiation tester.
Associate professor Yashcheritsyn E. participated directly in the career guidance event, during which he spoke to the students about the promising prospects of the J4 specialty «Occupational health and safety» and the «Occupational health and safety» educational program, as well as opportunities for study, internships, and obtaining a dual degree at foreign universities. Employment prospects and the positions that young specialists in this field will hold after graduation were also discussed.
Naturally, the students at the science high school were interested in the opportunity to work with instruments for monitoring hazardous and harmful industrial factors.
Using the bomb shelter where this event was held as an example, Associate Professor Yashcheritsyn E.V. demonstrated how to determine the parameters of hazardous and harmful factors, such as: illuminance levels at various points – 290-390 lx; electric field strength – 0-2000 V/m; magnetic induction – 0…99,9 μT; air temperature in the bomb shelter, which fluctuated between 19.9 and 20.6 °C during the event; humidity – 38%; air velocity less than 0,1 m/s.
In general, it should be noted that the maximum values of magnetic induction (approximately 99,9 μT) and electric field strength (approximately 2000 V/m) were recorded directly on the casings of the electrical equipment used during the event. As the GM 3120 device was moved away from this equipment, the levels of these factors decreased to zero. Therefore, it should be noted that the levels of harmful and hazardous occupational factors measured in the bomb shelter fully met the conditions for holding the event.
The department’s faculty members continue their career guidance efforts!
Associate professor of the department «OandES» Eugene Yascheritsin