He management of personnel safety of railway transport enterprises

The urgency of personnel safety management as a priority trend in the system of economical safety at railway transport enterprises in modern crisis economic conditions has been revealed in the article. The approaches to the determination of a scientific category of “personnel safety” has been investigated and the conclusion has been drawn that scientists reveal the essence of personnel safety according to the following main positions: as the state of being secure from threats caused by personnel actions; as processes, a complex of measures or directions concerning the prevention and counteraction against threats; or through the combination of all these directions. The tasks of managing personnel safety of railway transport enterprises has been revealed, in particular the following directions of the work concerning the provision with the personnel safety has been determined: estimation; investigation and detection of risks; the development and implementation of personnel safety provision tools. It was determined that one of the most important factors of personnel safety provision at railway transport enterprises and as a result one of the most important methods of threat prevention is the formation of employees’ loyalty and devotion through the system of efficient motivation in which attention is focused on the prevention and elimination of threats of employees’ low competence, the absence of corporate consciousness, the provision of economic health of employees and their protectability.