METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO IDENTIFICATION OF SELF-RESCUER

Abstract

The enrichment of the Ukrainian market with insulating self-rescuers of questionable provenance, quality and safety causes an urgent need to protect the domestic market from such products. The authors substantiate the need to conduct professional identification as a prerequisite for introducing real, safe and usable self-rescuers; the development of methodological support for the procedure of identification of selfrescuers, as one of the defining stages of their commodity examination. The purpose of the study is to develop methodological approaches to the identification of self-rescuers (including the establishment of authenticity) for safe and effective commodity research. Methodological approaches to the identification of self-rescuers are based on the formulated algorithm for the formation of information support and implementation of commodity examination of self-rescuers, keeping in mind the requirements for the preparation and conduct of safe research. The necessity of descriptive identification of self-rescuers during their commodity examination is substantiated. An algorithm for confirming (identifying) the authenticity of self-rescuers is proposed. The authors’ developments: solve the problem of a poor methodological support for identification and commodity examination of self-rescuers; are an effective tool for preventing the sale and placing into service of low-quality and dubious self-rescuers, which can be deadly for workers and qualified commodity experts. Further research will be aimed at testing the proposed methodological approaches to the identification and implementation in expert practice of commodity examination of self-rescuers.