MIL-OSI Russia: Occupational safety and personnel policy issues discussed at All-Russian forum at Polytechnic

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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –

On June 5 and 6, the Polytechnic University is hosting the All-Russian Conference “Labor Protection and Personnel Work in Organizations Subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.” The event is organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. More than 650 specialists are participating in it, discussing current issues in the field of labor protection and personnel policy.

Participants meet with representatives of relevant government agencies and consider various topics: compliance with labor legislation, holding competitions for positions of professors and teachers, research fellows, certification and selection of managers, anti-corruption policy, labor protection, and social partnership. The work takes place in the format of expert sessions, master classes, and discussion platforms. The experts were also able to get acquainted with the exhibition stands.

State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Anastasia Bondarenko addressed the participants in a video format: The topics that are raised annually at the conference are the most relevant. Issues of safety and comfortable conditions are a priority. The strategic potential of any organization is people. We must preserve the best traditions that have developed and share experience on the problems that arise.

The words of greeting from the Chairman of the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the St. Petersburg Administration Andrey Maksimov were read by his deputy Vladimir Gaidei: I am confident that the Polytechnic University will once again become a unifying discussion platform for the conference participants. You will have the opportunity to exchange experience and relevant information on issues important for the sustainable and stable functioning of educational and scientific organizations.

The guests were greeted by the rector of SPbPU, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Rudskoy: At the federal level, programs for increasing competitiveness and academic leadership are consistently implemented, which have significantly changed the landscape of higher education, setting, among other things, new requirements for management culture. Personnel policy cannot be formulated in isolation from the university strategy, and it should be built with a focus on creating mechanisms for attracting the best teachers and staff, ensuring an effective contract and consistent integration of teachers’ activities into the implementation of work for industry.

The participants of the plenary session discussed new challenges and solutions in personnel work and labor protection. The discussion was moderated by the President of the Southern Federal University Marina Borovskaya. Director of the Department of Personnel Policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia Alexey Svistunov made a report “Personnel Policy of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: Main Development Trends”. Director of the Department of Legal Support, Administration and Civil Service of the Ministry of Education of Russia Andrey Sobolev spoke about how to improve the efficiency of labor protection services in educational organizations.

Deputy Director of the Department of Working Conditions and Occupational Safety Tatyana Zhigastova devoted her speech to changes and prospects for the development of regulatory frameworks in the field of occupational safety. Chairperson of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of the Russian Federation Larisa Solodilova spoke in detail about the implementation of social partnership in solving problems of protecting social and labor rights and the effectiveness of monitoring compliance with labor safety legislation. Chairperson of the All-Russian Trade Union of RAS Workers Galina Chucheva gave a report on “Development of Social Partnership: Proposals of the Trade Union of RAS Workers”.

Acting Head of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Anti-Corruption Legislation of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor’s Office Yegor Pavlov spoke about the organization’s anti-corruption policy, legislative requirements, their implementation and responsibility. Deputy Head of the Department of the Department of Permit and Visa Work and External Labor Migration of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Police Colonel Elena Klimova emphasized the specifics of attracting foreign citizens to work in the Russian Federation. Deputy Director for Research at the Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Medicine Evgeny Zibarev presented regulatory and legal changes in the field of health protection in his speech. Head of the Department of Acquisition, Departmental Archives and Records Management of the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg Yulia Arslanova spoke about the storage of personnel documents and labor protection documents.

The moderator of the expert session “State supervision, departmental control: typical mistakes in personnel work. Ambiguous trends in law enforcement practice in labor disputes” was the head of the Directorate for Work with Personnel of SPbPU Maria Pakhomova. The participants discussed changes in supervisory activities and risk indicators, recruitment and registration of labor relations with foreign scientific and pedagogical workers, trends in law enforcement practice in labor disputes and other issues.

The moderators of the discussion platform “Improving approaches to remuneration and motivation of personnel” were Deputy Chief Accountant of SPbPU Irina Tomshinskaya and Director of the Department of Economics and Finance of SPbPU Elena Vinogradova. The experts considered the automation of HR processes of the university, the use of IT services to optimize the activities of employees, the system of accounting for the achievements of university-forming personnel, modification of the algorithm for forming the staffing schedule and other topics. Head of the Department of Corporate and Information Systems of SPbPU Denis Varenikov presented the report “Personal account of an employee as a tool for the digital transformation of an institution”. Head of the Labor Protection and Safety Department of SPbPU Yulia Shadrina spoke about the modification of the algorithm for forming the staffing schedule.

The round table “The Role of the Psychological Service in Ensuring Psychological Safety at the University” was moderated by Maxim Pasholikov, Vice-Rector for Youth Policy and Communication Technologies at SPbPU. The participants discussed the activities of psychological services at universities, student support, and aspects of the work of the tutoring service. Anna Kalugina, Director of the Center for Psychological Support at SPbPU, presented a report on “Psychological Aspects of Training First-Year Group Curators.”

The discussion platform “Assessment and development of personnel: current trends and effective mechanisms” was attended by the director of the Higher School of Industrial Management of SPbPU, secretary of the Competition Committee Olga Kalinina, who spoke about the assessment and development of the teaching staff within the framework of competition procedures.

At the discussion platform “Current issues of organizing labor protection in scientific and educational organizations of higher education,” Nikolai Chumakov, associate professor of the Higher School of Technosphere Safety of SPbPU, spoke and presented the specifics of conducting first aid training.

The debate “Experience is no obstacle to mastery. How to find the “golden mean”: professional standards vs. competencies / youth vs. “silver age”” was moderated by Vice-Rector for HR Policy of SPbPU Maria Vrublevskaya. The experts exchanged opinions on strategic issues of human capital management, discussed the age balance of the NPR, ways to attract and retain young people, professional standards and competencies.

The moderator of the round table “Educational and methodological support for training specialists in labor protection” was the director of the Higher School of Technosphere Safety of SPbPU Andrey Andreev. The first vice-president of MANEB, associate professor of SPbPU Vitaly Tsaplin made a report “Artificial intelligence in labor protection management systems”. Senior lecturers of the Polytechnic University Yulia Logvinova and Maxim Polyukhovich spoke about the methodological foundations of the laboratory practical course on labor protection.

Also planned today is a discussion platform “Mentoring as an element of developing human resources potential” together with the UNESCO Department at SPbPU and other activities.

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