TO THE PROBLEM OF THE ASSESSMENT OF INDUSTRIAL INJURY IN RUSSIA
Currently, in the Russian Federation, the statistical method of analysis is the basis for assessing the safety of the production environment and the labor process. It is used as comparative values of a posteriori statistical indicators: on the number of registered accidents, occupational diseases and jobs with adverse working conditions for the health of workers. One of the most important conditions for the correct use of statistical indicators is the study of absolute and relative statistical values in their unity; if this condition is not met, then it is possible to get incorrect conclusions about the real state of safety in a country. The purpose of this work was to identify informative statistical indicators that determine the impact of industrial injuries on the health of a population of people, to establish the economic damage caused and to identify the causes that aggravate such damage. As a result of the study, a distortion in the statistics of industrial injuries in Russia was established. It leads to the concealment of industrial injuries and the impossibility of a reliable assessment of socio-economic damage. Examples of the actual level of occupational injuries, the average severity of a single accident, annual economic losses, and social damage are given. The necessity of analyzing the totality of qualitative and quantitative indices during a certain time interval is established. The relationship between statistical indicators of labor protection and socio-economic indicators (injuries and contributions to the social insurance fund) is shown. The authors established the need to study the phenomena and processes generated by the production environment and labor relations, using a system of interrelated socio-economic indicators based on their quantitative characteristics.