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Identifying the mining enterprise units with a significant level of non-compliance with occupational safety requirements using the example of a coal mine

Vitaliy Tsopa1, Olena Yavorska2, Serhii Cheberiachko2, Oleg Deryugin2, Dmytro Lantukh2

1International Institute of Management, Kyiv, Ukraine

2Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine


Min. miner. depos. 2025, 19(2):27-37


https://doi.org/10.33271/mining19.02.027

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      ABSTRACT

      Purpose. The research aims to develop a process for identifying mining enterprise units with a significant level of non-compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of employees using the Grey Relational Analysis method.

      Methods. To identify the units of a mining enterprise with a significant level of non-compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of employees, the Grey Relational Analysis method is used, which allows ranking the mining enterprise units according to actual and target (reference) indicators.

      Findings. A nine-step process has been developed for identifying mining enterprise units with a significant level of non-compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of employees using the Grey Relational Analysis method. A checklist for internal audit of units on compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of miners is proposed, which allows determining the coefficient of non-compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of miners in accordance with ISO 45001:2018 standard, as the ratio of positive and negative responses of auditors. Based on the results of calculating the numerical values of compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of miners, it has been determined that the worst coefficient of non-compliance, which is more than 20%, is at the sites of conveyor transport and assembling / disassembling operations. It is proposed to determine the materiality criterion of non-compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of employees as the difference between the reference and current level of compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of employees.

      Originality. The scientific novelty of the research is to identify the relationship between the coefficient of compliance (non-compliance) with occupational safety and health requirements and the materiality criterion of non-compliance, which characterize the attitude of miners to occupational safety requirements.

      Practical implications. A process has been developed to identify mining enterprise units with significant non-compliance with occupational safety and health requirements of employees, which allows for the introduction of appropriate precautionary and protective measures to reduce occupational risks.

      Keywords: lunit, mining enterprise, occupational safety, employees’ health, occupational safety and health requirements of employees


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