Opening of HSE DAYS Season VI

Opening of HSE DAYS Season VI: New Horizons and Challenges

The sixth season of the HSE DAYS international professional platform opens at a time when occupational health and industrial safety issues require not just a formal approach, but real, working tools. During the webinar, industry experts discussed key directions for the community's development, with volunteering and benchmarking taking a special place. These initiatives are becoming a natural response to the need of companies to share real experience and find effective solutions to reduce injury rates.

Volunteering and Experience Sharing: Rosatom's Initiative

Evgeny Parygin, Head of the Institute of Safety Culture Commissioners at Rosatom, detailed the concept of volunteer assistance to enterprises in his presentation. What is proposed: creating a volunteer squad of experts ready to advise companies at the initial stages of safety culture development. Why it matters: many enterprises want to develop but do not know where to start, being at a reactive level. How it works in practice: experts with extensive experience in implementing best practices (including from the 12 economic sectors covered by the project) will help conduct self-assessments, audits, and develop documents, accelerating the transformation process.

Alarming Statistics and Focus Areas for 2025

HSE DAYS founder Andrey Prokopenko raised the acute problem of rising occupational injuries. The speaker showed through statistics that over the past five years, the number of workplace fatalities has increased by 44% (from 1,277 in 2020 to 1,836 in 2024). Moreover, facts of concealing accidents have been revealed. In response to these challenges, the project focuses on developing the Safety Guarantors Club to engage top company executives and on global benchmarking — sharing information about tools that genuinely reduce injury rates. There are also plans to modernize the case library (over 500 practices) with convenient filters.

Benchmarking and Risk Management Tools: Experience of SUEK and Metalloinvest

Vladimir Varlamov, HSE Director at Sibkor (SUEK), emphasized the importance of a systematic approach to safety tools. The speaker analyzed the "risk hunting" process, noting the need to collect all measures into a single funnel, honestly assess risk criticality, and analyze root causes. This is the only way to move away from constantly recurring violations. Ekaterina Rogova, Head of Production Culture Improvement Projects at Metalloinvest, expanded on the benchmarking topic, noting that it is not just dry statistics, but a deep analysis of tool implementation and mistakes. She cited the example of successfully adopting a "heat map" from Evraz, which allows visualizing critical safety indicators across sites.

What you will learn from this webinar:

• How to get expert volunteer help to develop a safety culture at your enterprise?
• What are the real statistics on fatal injuries in Russia and why are they growing?
• How to properly organize the "risk hunting" process and avoid a formal approach?
• What is a safety "heat map" and how does it help managers prioritize?
• Why is benchmarking not just comparing indicators, but a tool for preventing others' mistakes?