INFORMATION ENTROPY AS AN INDICATOR OF INDEFINITENESS IN ENSURING OF SAFETY AT WORKPLACES FOR DISABLED PERSONS

Abstract

Purpose. Analysis of the possibility of using informational entropy as an indicator characterizing the indefiniteness in making managerial decisions about the employment of a person who has stable functional changes in the state of health at the workplace. According to the indicator of informational indefiniteness, the person who makes managerial decisions has the opportunity to determine the necessity and sufficiency of organizational and technical solutions for adapting the workplace taking into account the limitations of vital activity of an employee with a disability. Research Methodology. The methodology is based on the analysis of available statistical information about the causes of injuries associated with production at the enterprises of the processing industry to determine the probability of an accident for each group as an individual risk of injury. Based on this, the informational entropy is determined. It is proposed to take into account the health status of persons with disabilities by the integrated indicator of functional limitations of vital activity, which affects at the value of information entropy, and provides the ability to make effective management decisions to reduce it and increase the level of occupational safety at the workplaces of workers with disabilities and the enterprise as a whole. Scientific novelty. It consists in developing an approach to making managerial decisions to ensure the occupational safety of workers with disabilities at the enterprise based on taking into account their special needs using the integral indicator of functional limitations of vital activity, that affects on the level of information entropy, which reflects the effectiveness of the implementation of issues of ensuring safety at the workplaces of this category of workers. Practical value. It consists in providing to the decision-maker the information base for developing effective actions for selecting and adapting a workplace in accordance with the needs of an employee who has stable functional changes in his state in order to prevent an increase of the level of occupational injuries. Reducing the risk of injury of workers with disabilities will enhance the positive attitude towards the problem of employment of this category of the population by employers, and will allow to obtain a significant socio-economic effect at the state level