The Role of The State in Industrial Safety Management: The Example of Kazakhstan

The most important direction in the transformation of the economic system of Kazakhstan is the formation of a national culture of prevention of safe work. In the medium term, Kazakhstan will intensify steps to transform the mechanisms for preventing industrial injuries and create an effective system of state labor inspection. The author's goal was to investigate the problems of industrial safety in Kazakhstan, to substantiate the role of the state in the prevention of industrial injuries at enterprises. An assessment of the current state of safety and labor protection in Kazakhstan is given. As a result of the research conducted by the author, the main reasons for which accidents occurred at enterprises were identified. The role of the state in creating safe working conditions at industrial enterprises in order to reduce industrial injuries is substantiated. The research methodology is based on the assessment of research works of Kazakhstani and foreign authors on various aspects of achieving safe labor, analysis of indicators of industrial safety in Kazakhstan in 2017-2021.The official data of the Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan, information on various aspects of safety and labor protection, which is freely available on the Internet, was used as an information and analytical base for the study.