#Legislation
Changes in occupational health and safety legislation and the regulatory base. Overviews of state labor codes, regulatory rules, and ISO standards. Expert lawyers provide practical advice on swiftly adapting corporate documents.
Saving Lives Through Dismissal
In the article, the head of technosphere safety analyzes the causes of industrial accidents and workplace injuries arising from systematic rule violations and a chain of negligent actions. The author explains why dismissing employees who are unwilling to follow a safety culture becomes a way to save their lives by freeing them from risk factors and to protect surrounding colleagues.
How to Scale an HSE System Across Different Countries: A Practical Story About Culture, Standards, and People
International scaling of an occupational health and safety management system comes down not just to transferring corporate regulations, but to taking into account the hidden nuances of local legislation and workers' cultural habits. Using the examples of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, the CIS, and Europe, the article examines the specifics of rule perception, as well as the roles of management and state inspections across different macro-regions. The material shows how to ada...
The Universal Language: Safety Signs
Safety signs are a key element of visualization in the occupational health and safety management system, working to prevent workplace injuries. Thanks to the standardization of color and shape, pictograms instantly convey unambiguous information in conditions of noise and distracted attention, easily overcoming language barriers. The article reveals the main functions of safety signs, the features of their perception by the human brain, and the history of the establishment of global ISO standard...
Manure is Good. But Does Everyone Think So?
Disagreements between supervisory authorities and agricultural producers regarding the status of manure boil down to a single requirement — its use must be safe for nature and business. The article considers an approach to organizing work with manure, including an inventory of the enterprise's capabilities, standardization of the stages of its life cycle, and continuous control. The author shows how documented processes and readiness to demonstrate them to regulators help establish order and res...
Perfect is the Enemy of Good
The article is devoted to the practice of applying the Kaizen concept and rationalization ideas at Russian hazardous production facilities. The author explains why Federal Law No. 116-FZ and invention patents do not grant the right to unauthorizedly alter equipment design contrary to established requirements. The material helps to understand the legal restrictions of lean production and to prevent dangerous errors under the guise of continuous improvement.
Environment and Construction. EcoZOS
Environmental Conclusion of Conformity (EKOZOS) is a mandatory document for obtaining permission to commission a number of capital construction or reconstruction facilities. The article examines the regulatory control of the procedure, the list of obligated facilities, and the package of documents required for processing. The material describes a step-by-step algorithm of interaction with Rosprirodnadzor — from notifying the agency 7 days before the start of work and coordinating the inspection...
Soil Nitrogen Management: How to Tame the "Giant"
A comprehensive environmental risk management system for handling animal by-products (ABP). It includes deep soil plowing, subsurface runoff application using automated pumping stations, and a four-level process control.
Creating a Public Access Defibrillation System in Public Places and the Workplace for the Most Effective First Aid in Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Creating a public access defibrillation system at an enterprise taking into account changes in legislation (Ministry of Health Order No. 220n). Includes analysis of risk zones, purchase and placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), mass training of employees in CPR skills, and regular monitoring of the technical condition of the equipment.
Working Conditions Assessment: Are We on the Verge of Major Changes?
The current system of special assessment of working conditions relies on outdated approaches and does not provide answers to the challenges of modern workplaces — from remote work to office stress and LED lighting. Price dumping by laboratories and the commercial interests of employers have weakened state control and destroyed the original ideology of protecting workers' health. The article considers the need for a transition to a new comprehensive approach to occupational hygiene capable of ide...
ECOSPACE (Reclamation of Disturbed Lands)
The article explains the essence of the reclamation of disturbed and contaminated land as a process of artificially recreating soil fertility and vegetation cover after economic activity. The material considers legal requirements regarding deadlines and responsible entities, criteria for selecting restoration directions, as well as tasks of the technical and biological stages. The text emphasizes the importance of conducting comprehensive reclamation to restore all components of the natural envi...
Most of us drink water extracted from the Earth's interior. But what exactly is groundwater, and how is it used?
The article explains the concept and classification of groundwater, its role in drinking water supply, energy, and balneology, as well as provides data on the resource potential of groundwater in Russia. The material examines in detail the legal norms of subsoil use, including cases where a license is not required for citizens and gardening associations. In addition, the rules for the protection of groundwater bodies and the grounds for termination of the right to subsoil use are outlined.
The problem of monitoring wastewater composition and property standards. Control methods considering the specifics of legislative changes in water supply and sanitation
Implementation of a comprehensive internal control system for wastewater composition at an industrial enterprise. The practice includes parallel sampling, merging environmental functions into a single service, and phased discharge of concentrated effluents to reduce reagent costs and minimize fines for exceeding standards.