About Oversight in the Field of Industrial Safety

A.S. Pecherkin

The article reviews the issue of which facilities are subjected to federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety. It demonstrates incomplete compliance of domestic regulatory legal base and practice with the international requirements and experience in the field of industrial safety.

Improving Control of Personnel Training and Certification Periodicity

V.A. Ulyanov

The paper considers ways of improving the specialists certification periodicity control system by creating a unified system for certified specialists recording and introduction of unified universal certificates in necessary fields (access cards).

Stress-Corrosion of Main Gas Pipelines

M.F. Sunagatov

The paper presents logic chain of contemplations and conclusions laying bare the nature of stress-corrosion at main gas pipelines. It proposes ways of protection against stress-corrosion based on removal of atomic hydrogen sources on metal surfaces of operational main gas pipelines.

Didactic Means on Occupational Safety at Trunklines Repair and Reconstruction on the Basis of Graphic Design and Information Technologies

D.K. Sharafutdinov, M.N. Badrutdinov, R.R. Sibagatullin

3D modeling and graphic design capabilities in designing educational-methodical materials on occupational safety are shown in the Article.

Calculation of Buildings and Structures DestructionZones Resulted from Explosions of Fuel-Air Mixtures at Hazardous Production Facilities

K.V. Efremov, M.V. Lisanov, A.S. Sofyin, E.A. Samuseva, S.I. Sumskoy, A.P. Kiriyenko

The paper presents comparison of calculation of destruction zones resulted from outer explosions of fuel-air mixtures, made in accordance with the Russian methods (RD 03-409—01, PB 09-540—09) and methods of TNO (The Netherlands), with the experimental data on hydrogen-air mixture explosions. It proposes technical approach to assessment of buildings and structures fracture risk during accidental explosions at hazardous production facilities.