The existing methodologies to determine the costs of service for a hazardous production facility provided by emergency and rescue units have been analyzed. The issues hampering the calculations were identified, and the criteria to be incorporated into the calculation procedure, considering the identified shortcomings, have been proposed.
Throughout the study, the following problems were resolved:
The analysis of accidents at hazardous production facilities, federal laws in the sphere of industrial safety, and the existing methodologies to determine the cost of service for a hazardous production facility provided by emergency and rescue services or units;
Identification of issues hampering the calculations;
Proposing criteria incorporated into the procedure of calculation of costs of service for a hazardous production facility provided by emergency and rescue services or units.
The authors refer to the statistics on emergencies at hazardous production facilities and focus on the fact that similar accidents cause devastating consequences requiring emergency and rescue operations. When operating a hazardous production facility, its operating company is required to enter into servicing agreements with professional emergency and rescue services or professional emergency and rescue units. Maintaining a servicing agreement with professional services is more cost-efficient compared with maintaining an in-house emergency and rescue unit. At the same time, the issue of determining a justified cost of the agreement with professional emergency and rescue services (units) for servicing a hazardous production facility becomes crucial.
The article analyzes the Rules of calculation of costs of service for mining facilities provided by professional emergency and rescue services (units) and the Norms of minimum equipping of emergency and rescue units. The procedure of calculation of expenses on maintenance of personnel of professional services and the respective operational costs have been analyzed. It has been demonstrated that the calculated service cost is significantly higher than the service costs specified for tenders. The criteria incorporated into the cost calculation procedure for servicing a hazardous production facility by emergency and rescue services or units have been developed.
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