Organizational and methodological toolkit for improving the safety of labour processes in coal strip mines

The article presents an organizational and methodological toolkit, which is based on understanding of the occurrence patterns of adverse events. With respect to the labour safety this pattern looks in the following way: effect (hazardous production situations and negative events) ← cause (quality of the organizational and managerial activities and the labour process) ← original cause (professional skills of the manager). The toolkit includes the following techniques: 1 - identification and assessment of the risk level regarding the emergence and development of typical hazardous production situations; 2 - creation of registers of hazardous production situations; 3 - assessment of the labour processes quality; 4 - assessment of the personnel's predisposition to risky behaviour; 5 - organization of the personnel's work during a shift; 6 - assessment of the quality of organizational and managerial activities; 7 - an algorithm for a manager to develop a program to enhance his/her activities. Mastering the tools in practice allows the interested manager to form and maintain the labour process within the acceptable risk parameters. This toolkit has been tested at the operations of the East Mining Company and can be recommended for application in coal strip mines.