Professional standard as level indicator of qualification of specialists In labour protection
The article deals with the importance of professional standard to evaluate qualification of specialists in labour protection within independant evaluation of qualification. The author underlines that from July 1, 2016 independant evaluation of qualification is the only way for employers to qualify employees unless other ways of evaluation of employees or persons who claim to carry out certain working activities are determined by other federal normative legal acts of the Russian Federation. Taking into account that professional standard is a complex of requirements for qualification of specialists and must reflect actual demands of labour market to the level of their training, the article considers basic changes and innovations in the context of actual professional standard “A specialist in the field of labour protection” together with quite new approaches to the organization of the whole system of labour protection as well as practical working experience of specialists.