Prospects for the application of the industrial facility ranking method to assess radiation and chemical risks to public health and the environment

Classification and ranking of potentially hazardous chemical facilities and contaminated territories are urgent and important tasks in the field of risk management and environmental protection. The presented tasks arise in connection with the need to make decisions on increasing control over hazardous production facilities, as well as optimizing resources and reducing negative environmental impacts, which makes it possible to identify facilities with the greatest potential for danger and strengthen control over them, which contributes to improving the safety of employees, society and the environment. The study aims to substantiate the possibilities of using the method of ranking potentially dangerous chemical and radiation facilities based on literature data to assess their impact on public health and the environment. The scientists have conducted a systematic review of scientific data to substantiate methodological approaches and criteria necessary for ranking potentially dangerous chemical and radiation facilities in order to assess their risk to public health and the environment from bibliographic databases Scopus, MedLine, Web of Science, PubMed, Cochrane Library, RSCI. The results of the research have made it possible to determine the specifics of accounting for the impact of industrial facilities on the environment and human health applicable to pilot facilities and territories, the possibilities of ranking activities by risk levels are shown, allowing to identify the most critical sectors and processes requiring special attention and regulation. The approaches to creating a unified information and analytical system that takes into account the impact of the environment on health are substantiated, which will make it possible to purposefully develop comprehensive programs for the prevention of morbidity in the population and assess the impact of harmful combined effects of environmental factors on health. The authors have presented criteria for the preliminary ranking of potential carcinogens (total annual emissions, weight coefficient of carcinogenic effect. In the course of their work, the scientists showed the possibilities of ranking activities by risk levels, which make it possible to identify the most critical sectors and processes that require special attention and regulation. They also presented criteria for preliminary ranking of potential carcinogens (the amount of total annual emissions, the weight coefficient of the carcinogenic effect. Ethics. This study did not require the conclusion of an Ethics Committee. Limitations. Given that this study was conducted on the basis of theoretical literature data, three pilot territories are not sufficient for its practical application. In the future, it is planned to expand the number of objects and territories for ranking.