Solving issues of occupational hygiene and safety at manufacturing enterprises (LTD "Tibet", LLC "UKR-POLIMER", PE "LVIVMETALPLAST")

Implementation of the OSH system, training on OSH issues, certification of personnel, medical examinations, technical inspection/certification of high-risk equipment, obtaining relevant Permits/registration of Declarations. Implementation of other OSH issues in accordance with the requirements of legislation.

Implementation of best practices, such as "Behavior Audits", "Lock-out/Tag-out" (LOTO)", "Risk Assessment"

Certification audits according to ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 requirements at such enterprises as "Flextronics", "Danish Textile", "Zaporizhzhia Metallurgical Plant", "Galka Kava", "Dnepr Metallurgical Plant", "BISCOTTI", "NESTLE", "Motor Sich", "Pivdenkabel", "FED", "Imperial Tobacco Production Ukraine", etc.

Verification of greenhouse gas emissions according to the MRV at the Dneprovsk Metallurgical Plant, Ferrexpo Poltava Mining, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih

Health, Safety and Environmental support/supervision/inspection during construction "Yuzhne Wind Farm" (17 WTG).

Collaboration and support of HSE issues according best practices, local legal safety rules for hazardous work and equipment with "SARENS", "NORDEX", "VIATEC" and "NOVA" companies.

• Involved to consultation on local regulators for HSE issues;
• Participated in the development of SHE documentation (HSE Plan, emergency and safety instructions, method statement etc.);
• Participated to the Risk analysis and safety expertise before start the works;
• Carrying out site safety induction employees and visitors;
• Control of instructing/safety training and medical examinations of workers on work places;
• Controlled the HSE logbooks - inductions, check of PPE, harness, tools, lifting equipment etc.;
• Control a valid certificates of tanning for performance of hazardous operations (GWO, works at height, electrical works, general safety course for managers, fire/welding works, etc.);
• Check professional training/skills, copies of certificates: slinger, rigger, crane operator, forklift driver, electrician, etc;
• Checking machinery, mechanism and tools on Site, fitness for purpose (copy of the passport), inspection control, testing (mark), serviceability;
• Control lifting operations related to the installation of WTG, the project of method of works or technological maps or method statement is drawn up and approved;
• Control all hazardous operations are carried out according to permits to work: work at - height, in pits, lifting operations with cranes, etc.;
• Control of carrying out works due to bad weather conditions: wind speed, rain, fog, thunderstorms;
• Investigation of all HSE incident to closure through identification of root causes analysis (RCA) and contributing factors as well as assist in making to prevent future incidents from occurring;
• Was involved in daily meetings, toolboxes

Article in the magazine Handbook of labor protection specialist · Nov, 2020 "Behavioral audit in the company: how to increase the level of safety culture".

Article in the magazine "Labor protection" №5 / 2022 "PYROTECHNICAL CONTROL OF SCRAP ON TIME!"

Article in the magazine "Labor Protection" №6 / 2022 "SAFE WIND ENERGY: EXPERIENCE OF WORK IN UKRAINE BY FOREIGN COMPANIES"

Ensuring safety during construction works, audit of workplaces on the project "ORLOVKA Wind Farm" (Construction foundations, electrical substation and installation of the 26 wind turbine generators - capacity 100MW").

Collaboration, consulting and communications on occupational safety works, local safety issues and exploitations of high-risk equipment for "Vestas", "Fairwind", "Mammoet" companies etc.

Implementation of procedure "Lock Out/Tag Out" for LCC "PepsiCo".

Certification of workplaces for "Weir Minerals Ukraine".

Responsibility and achievement:

Implementation of communications with media, Kharkiv regional state administration, local governments, social partners, and others.

• Introduction of international best practices and recommendations of the International Labor Organization.
• Introduction of risk management according with the Concept of reforming the OSH management system in Ukraine.
• The company from Kharkov won first place in the Ukrainian competition: "Risk Management Leader".

Responsibility and achievement:

• Provision of materials, coverage of the work of organizations, government institutions, conducting journalistic investigations, etc. on labor protection issues.
• Publications: "Unsafe Behaviours visits" №9/2016, "Near Miss " №12/2016, " Lock-out/Tag-out (LOTO)" №1/2017, " Zero Access to Machinery" №7/2017, etc.
• V international conference "Risk management in HS management systems. The European way of reforming and improving the organization of working conditions".

Development of requirements and implementation of the All-Ukrainian competition for the "Best Risk Assessment Company"

Responsibility and achievement:

• Preparation for certification according to the standards OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001.
• Permits for work of hazard equipment and for compliance with imported equipment of the legal rules of the Ukraine.
• Certification/attestation of workplaces.
• Implantation of best practices: "Unsafe Behaviours visits", "Near Miss", "Lock-out/Tag-out (LOTO)", "Zero Access to Machinery", "Risk Assessment" etc.
• Organization of a training on the topic "Safety works by contractors" with other factories in Kharkov.
• Implantation of medical check of employees in unhealthy and hazardous workplaces.
• Introduction of the procedure for working with contractors at the Nestle factories ("Technocom", "Svitoch", "Torchin").

Articles in the scientific and industrial magazine "Occupational Safety" № 4/2015 "Working together for the result", № 2/2016 "Procedures cooperations with contractors".

Gratitude of the Executive Directorate of the Social Fund.

Diploma of the Department of Labor and Social Policy.

Expertise of projects, audits and checks of workplaces, permits to work of projects:

• Strengthening the ceiling of the shop in the current production.

Initiated and led the project "Safety Legal Compliance" on the market Nestle Ukraine.

Responsibility and achievement:

Internal audits at external plants. Solution safety issues in energy companies, power plants, etc. (DTEK, Metinvest etc.).

Participation in construction projects (ensuring safety during construction works):

• Construction of a thermal power plant at the Alchevsk Metallurgical Combine. Installation equipments of process gas supply pipelines for MITSUBISHI gas turbines.
• Installation of the boilers and turbines, gas pipelines at DTEKs thermal power plants. (Burshtynskaya, Uglegorskaya, Starobehevskaya, Kurakhovskaya TPP).
• Installation of the boilers, natural gas and process gases pipelines at "Metinvest"s power plants (Mariupol Metallurgical Plant "Azovstal").

Responsibility and achievements:

Check all documents of safety by projects, according with Ukraine legislation; сheck all documents of contractors, induction training for contractors, audit of workplaces, permits to work.

• Expertise of projects and implemented equipment of safety issues at "Avdeevsky coking coal Plant", "Donetskstal - Metallurgic Plant", "Donetsk Aluminum Profiles Plant", "Enakievo Metallurgic Plant", "Makeevkoks", "Makeevsky Steel Works", "Azovstal Iron & Steel Works", "Ilyich iron and steel works", "Slavtyazhmash ", "Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant", refueling complexes, stations, etc.
• Knowledge of regulatory documentation, building norms, safety rules, etc.
• Expertise of Plans for the localization, liquidation of accidents and emergency situations, safety declarations of hazards equipment.

Responsibility and achievement:

• Implementation of the new OSH management system.
• Permits to work of hazard equipment and for compliance with imported equipment of the legal rules of the Ukraine.

Participation in the construction of the steelmaking furnace (safety part).

Check documents of safety by projects, according with Ukraine legislation; check l documents of contractors, induction training for contractors, audit of workplaces.

Start-up and adjustment after construction of the electric steel furnace 60 tons, getting permits to work.

Responsibility and achievement:

• Decrease in the level of occupational injuries more than twice.
• Implementing Collective Protection Tools.
• Introduction of the installation for supplying carbonated drinking water.
• Implementation of the afterburning system of CO from hot air heaters.

Participation in construction projects (ensuring safety during construction works):

• Construction (reconstruction) of three blast furnaces, installation equipments of fuel supply, water supply etc. (the new blast furnaces) capacity from 1000 till 2300 m3.
• Construction of a pulverized coal injection unit into the blast furnaces.

Check all documents of safety by projects, according with Ukraine legislation; check all documents of contractors, induction training for contractors, audit of workplaces.

Responsibility and achievement:

• Development, approval and implementation of the Plan for localization and elimination of emergencies and accidents in the blast-furnace shop.
• Introduction of a computer system for testing knowledge testing on labor protection issues (autoexamer).

Audit of workplaces, permits to work etc.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS from the Chairman of the Trade Union Committee "for active work"

Conducting the technological process of production of pig iron