Occupational and environmental safety
National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute»
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.
My semester at the University of Tartu as part of the academic mobility program is almost over, and I want to share my impressions and some news.
I’ll start with the more formal part — studying. For the first time in my life, I had exams in a lecture hall, and I also took an oral exam in English. The most important task in the exam is to pass it.
So far, I’ve been successful and have already received credits for two subjects, with the rest coming in January.
Then I have two more exams and the defense of a group project, which we will most likely prepare after the New Year, because many people have gone home for the holidays! Read more…
On December 9 and 10, 2025, the Department of Occupational and environmental safety held the defense of master’s theses for full-time and part-time students majoring in 263 «Civil Security» under the educational program «Occupational Health and Safety».
Eleven applicants took part in the event, including one foreign student (Republic of Azerbaijan). The topics of research covered current issues of occupational safety, civil protection, technological safety, as well as risk management, industrial hazard management, and improving working conditions and safety levels at modern enterprises. Read more…
This year, on December 4-5, the Department of OandES is holding the 17th International Internet Conference “Human Security in Modern Conditions.” The conference received and included in the collection 105 works by authors from Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Estonia, Slovakia, and other countries, who presented modern research in the field of life safety, technogenic, environmental, information, and psychosocial safety in five areas:
My name is Kateryna Reshetnyak and I am a student in the MIT-622 group at the Department of OandES. This semester, i was fortunate enough to participate in the Erasmus student exchange program in Tartu, Estonia. Daria Romanova (MIT-624), a student from our department, is also studying on this program with me.
To be honest, this is my first experience of this kind, spending an entire semester studying and living in a dormitory abroad.
I have been here for three weeks now, and I would like to share my impressions of the living conditions. Read more…
On June 06, 2025, the II round of the International Competition of Student Research Papers in the specialty 263 “Civil Security” was held at the Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University. The competition was held with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (letter № 21/08-168 of 31.01.2024) under the auspices of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO (letter № 413/19-194/087/10-2659 of 08.01.2024).
Within the framework of the project on international academic mobility, namely, semester academic exchange and double degree program, on 22.05.2025 a regular online meeting was held with Anna Kulakovska, coordinator of the educational program “Innovative Technologies and Modern Materials”, coordinator of the double diploma program in Security Engineering, associate professor of the department of Advanced Computing Methods of the Faculty of Natural, Exact and Technical Sciences, candidate of technical sciences at Jan Długosz University in Czestochowa (Poland). Read more…
Innovative thinking, responsibility, and professional interest were demonstrated by students of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Safety of the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” by participating in the All-Ukrainian Festival of Innovations – 2025.
This year, there has been an increase in the number of higher education students who have submitted StartUp projects to the competition, and our university is no exception: Read more…
On May 14, 2025, the annual international scientific conference «Information Technologies: Science, Engineering, Technology, Education, Health (MicroCAD-2025)» began its work.
Traditionally, our scientific and pedagogical workers took part in this event and presented their scientific achievements in Subsection 2.4 – Environmental technologies, occupational safety and health, which worked from 14:00 on May 15, 2025. The heads of the subsection were: professor Serhiy Oleksandrovych Vambol (Head of the Department of Occupational and Environment Safety) and associate professor Oleksiy Valeriyovych Shestopalov (Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Ecology). Read more…
During the week from May 5 to May 12, 2025, the Department of Occupational Safety and Environment held festive events dedicated to World Occupational Safety and Health Day.
In our country, this day is celebrated annually in accordance with the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated August 18, 2006 №685/2006.
This year, in accordance with the Rector’s Order №139 OD dated April 30, 2025, our department organized and held informational messages by scientific and pedagogical workers and employees of NTU “KhPI”, a methodological seminar of the department, meetings and classes with students, as well as a Lecture-Report dedicated to the issues of Occupational Safety and Life Safety. Read more…