#Competence
Development of professional qualifications and competence of occupational safety personnel. Transitioning from formal oversight to conscious production partnership: cases showcasing multi-level corporate training systems. The focus is on forming leadership qualities in foremen who bear the primary responsibility for preventing hazardous situations on site.
The Logic of a Manager and a Leader
The article is devoted to comparing the roles of a manager and a leader, distinguishing administrative functions from the specifics of leadership behavior. Based on comparative examples, historical experience, and business data, the author analyzes the key qualities of a leader — from intuition and readiness to take responsibility to the ability to foster a creative environment. The text helps to understand the differences between official position and real leadership, which is earned through a...
Improving Production Safety Based on the "Knowledge Monitoring" Information System
Implementation of the "Knowledge Monitoring" information system based on corporate smartphones for continuous personnel microlearning without interrupting production. The system includes NFC authorization, adaptation of questions to workshop specifics, and a web interface for managers to identify knowledge gaps and form a talent pool.
Conscious Safety. Myth or Reality?
The material examines an approach to conscious safety in production, formed through the knowledge and skills of the employee. The author analyzes key types of attitudes toward rule compliance — 'prisoner', 'vacationer', and 'partner'. The publication helps to understand how a personal choice in favor of safety affects professionalism and the preservation of employees' lives.
Construction Site Environmental Specialists: How Professional Competitions Work
The article is dedicated to the experience of organizing a professional skills competition among environmental specialists in construction at the "Stroy-Hero" festival for specialists from PJSC Gazprom facilities. The author describes the execution of the creative, theoretical, and practical stages of the trials, including solution modeling and monitoring. The material outlines the participant evaluation criteria, the system of rewarding winners, and the results of their participation in the Int...
Method of Organizing and Controlling the Safety of Production Processes at a Coal Mine
A commission-based methodology for assessing personnel reliability across four criteria, assigning a color category. Integration of assessment results into an automated work order system to block unreliable workers from dangerous processes.
"Decent Work Means Safe Labor": How Vorkuta Trains Personnel for the Gas Industry
The article tells about the competition 'Decent Work – Safe Labor', which since 2016 has been helping Vorkuta prepare its own personnel for the gas industry. As part of the project, high school students study the basics of life safety, get acquainted with gas transportation professions, and analyze real production case studies. The program shows the connection between school subjects and work tasks and increases the interest of young people in working in their hometown.
The Image of an HSE Specialist: Between Strictness and Care
The article reveals the essence of the profession of an occupational health and safety specialist as a bridge between safety standards and the team, where authority is built on trust, competence, and care, rather than bureaucracy. The author explains what qualities such an expert possesses, capable of changing attitudes toward safety and building a dialogue with employees at any level. The material helps to understand how to grow professionally without turning into a "paper dragon" and how to pr...
Safety Ambassadors Internship at the Kola Site
Participants of the "Safety Ambassadors" project from the "Prevention and Mentorship" track completed an internship in the transport safety department of the Kola site. During territory rounds, incoming vehicle inspection, and participation in Occupational Health and Safety Day, the ambassadors studied practical aspects of the work of the Industrial Safety Department's units. The article tells how this experience helps ambassadors implement best practices and develop internal company interaction...
Proactive Training as the Key to Driver Safety in Open-Pit Mines
Transport accidents in open-pit mines remain one of the main sources of severe injuries, so risk minimization requires a conscious approach to training haul truck drivers. The article examines the experience of using the 'Defensive Driving' coaching program, which combines theoretical analysis of risky operations and practical skill development at a training ground. Such training contributes to the formation of logical memory and deeply conscious safe behavior in complex operating conditions.
Shaping Behavioral Culture Through Workplace Training and Its Impact on Everyday Life
The article is devoted to how risk assessment training at an enterprise changes workers' attitude toward safety and becomes their lifestyle. The author shares the experience of conducting courses at a mine and their impact on their miner brother. The described incident on the road shows how knowledge acquired in production and a responsible attitude help prevent a dangerous situation outside of work in a timely manner.
A New Reality in HSE! Leadership Assessment as an Element of Safety Assurance!
The article examines the use of an automated system for assessing the leadership qualities and communicative compatibility of employees to enhance occupational health and safety. The program analyzes the results of diagnostic techniques based on the criteria of "Dominance" and "Friendliness", after which it automatically forms the optimal composition of work shifts. Such an approach makes it possible to distribute leaders within teams, prevent conflicts, and increase industrial safety.
How to Overcome the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve and Reinforce Workers' Knowledge
The article discusses the application of the spaced repetition method to overcome the effect of the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve when training workers in occupational health and safety. Using the example of a software and methodological system with express training terminals, it shows how visual photo and video materials as well as 3D animation help to regularly reinforce personnel knowledge. The described approach makes it possible not only to monitor employee preparation before a shift, but als...