The Digital future of labor protection

Labor protection is the most important element of the social policy of the modern state. Without compliance with labor protection laws and modernizing measures intended to ensure safe working conditions, effective business development is hindered. The labor protection legislation has been amended, the “regulatory guillotine” is being implemented, new legislative acts have been adopted, significant changes have been made to the Labor Code, and the digital transformation of the economy is underway. This paper considers changes in legal and regulatory documents on risk management and labor protection in the context of digitalization, analyzes potential for development of labor protection. In particular, the phenomenon of digitalization is considered, and directions of digitalization in labor protection are classified: achievements in the field of automatic documentation of labor protection procedures are described; control over the safe production of work and working conditions, the state of health of workers and the process of labor protection training of workers are analyzed.