Professional safety management in libraries of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to understanding the issue of occupational safety management in Ukrainian libraries from the point of view of social and psychological safety. The problems and trends of library safety management are revealed in the issues of regulatory and legal support in the library sphere. It is indicated that the socio-psychological aspect of labor safety management needs special attention, since there is a contradiction between the inconsistency of norms and standards of the professional library environment with the conditions for the functioning of libraries, on the one hand, and the need to improve the efficiency of staff, on the other. It is determined that currently labor protection is at the stage of significant transformations. Along with well-known forms and methods of management, new models and principles of security management are widely distributed. The concept of hygiene and safety management, based on internationally recognized standards and recommendations, replaces the formed traditional forms and methods of labor protection management in Ukraine. It is concluded that innovative activities in the field of social protection should be aimed at continuous improvement and development of a regulatory framework that promotes the identification and neutralization of negative factors of library labor. Priority areas of activity have been proposed that should be reflected in terms of measures to prevent, identify and neutralize the negative factors of library labor, to which: continuous improvement of working conditions, bringing them to indicators close to regulatory; reduction of professional risk to actually acceptable levels; The formation of corporate and behavioral culture in the teams, the principle is to work safely more importantly, than to work is profitable or productively different. It is concluded that changing the conditions of library work in the further development of the information society require special research and development of a set of relevant legal documents to create conditions for safe work in the library.