Abstract
The human factor is one of the main causes of accidents, violations of safety requirements in management and design solutions, the operation of dangerous objects. Low safety culture, way of thinking and behavior is often caused by the fact that man himself is the source of danger.
This paper represents the analysis of specific industrial failures. The role of human factors in the causes of their occurrence is described. It is shown that the value of culture in general in the post-industrial society is extremely high. Culture is able to harmonize the interests of people and the technosphere, while the culture of safety is a general tool for such harmonization. Safety culture is formed in the process of education and depends largely on the level of competence of employees and management at various levels of competence in security related subjects.
The paper studies the concepts of the basis for safety education, which is formed from synergetic principles and techniques of interdisciplinary training. The grounds of the security education are civilizational changes, changes of cultural values, scientific and educational paradigms; humanistic, pedagogical, national, pragmatic, conceptual, and terminological base, the content of which is disclosed and justified. The general and particular features of human factors and safety culture in Russia, the former Soviet Union, the Eastern European States and Western European countries are discussed.
The creation of human-friendly environment is the major task for engineering. The experience of training process organization in the field of security in Russia and CIS countries is described. A successfully implemented study programme is described, that aims training and formation of security competencies. Also, presented the system of organization of educational process, feed-back system and the results of implementation of the education model in the field of security in Russia. The system of training in the field of industrial and environmental safety, occupational safety and protection in emergency situations.
