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Владимир НЕЙМАН; Кандидат Технических Наук
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Don't write it off!
On technical regulation in the Customs Union
The recipe for saving the reform of technical regulation in the Russian Federation , proposed in the article “Bombs for Industry,” may also be relevant in solving the problems of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus that has begun its work. The point is to separate out from the sphere of technical regulation, covering all types of products, technical devices used at hazardous production facilities and in the selected area to abandon technical regulations, making a choice in favor of improving industry safety rules (SSR).The advantage of industry safety rules (and there are several hundred of them) is an integrated approach to ensuring the safety of hazardous production facilities. The joint efforts of technical specialists of the Customs Union can be aimed at improving the safety security by establishing and updating, as necessary, both requirements (with links to relevant mandatory standards) for technical devices and requirements for ensuring the safety of technological processes.
Industry safety rules are the documents that for decades have united the efforts of specialists from the countries of the former USSR. They are well known to all participants in the process and can serve as an excellent, already existing foundation for creating a unified or, if you like, a common regulatory framework for the Customs Union.
Thus, at one time, safety rules in coal mines were developed by a working group of leading and recognized industry experts representing employees of Gosgortekhnadzor bodies, coal mines, joint-stock companies, research, design and engineering institutes of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. In addition, an authoritative editorial board headed by the head of Gosgortekhnadzor took part in the work. Each new edition of the rules was drawn up taking into account the provisions of the previous edition, but contained changes and additions aimed at improving work safety.
In other words, any safety rules are a living document that has been responsibly updated by the state. A key role in updating the mentioned safety rules was given to applied research institutes working for the industry: MakNII (founded in 1927), VostNII (1960), VNIIVE (1959), etc. The knowledge gained over many years of research made it possible to create regulatory documents , the implementation of which in practice ensured an optimal level of safety during mining operations.
The safety rules were a guiding document for employees of the ministry and production associations for coal mining, factories - manufacturers of equipment for coal mines, supervisory authorities at all levels, miners, university students and vocational schools. Ultimately, a high level of safety in the coal industry was ensured. This is a positive experience and is now worthy of replication.
Today, unfortunately, our brand often becomes a not entirely meaningful copying of someone else’s experience. It is time, finally, to understand that technical regulations are inanimate documents that are not tied to production, cannot be quickly updated, and that they hinder innovation processes, the development of applied science, and the growth of scientific personnel. Due to the fact that technical regulations do not take into account the most important technical details that are key to ensuring product quality and industrial safety, they cannot fulfill their mission - to serve as a barrier against the appearance of dangerous products on the markets.
The elimination of barriers to international trade on the basis of such a regulatory framework turns into a dangerous slogan for all market participants, since it is fraught with numerous emergency threats of manifestation of unaccounted risks with zero responsibility of the developers of technical regulations.
It is vital for the participants of the Customs Union to return to continuous painstaking, responsible work on improving the BPR (updating the rules was frozen in Russia in 2003), otherwise, in the designated area of regulation, degradation of intellectual potential and loss of partnerships with the rest of the world are inevitable. It has been known since school days that poor students who copy everything from others do not gain knowledge and do not earn the respect of others.