PERSPECTIVES AND ISSUES OF TEACHING “OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY” FOR PHARMACEUTICAL DEPARTMENT GRADUATES

Abstract

An important component of training a specialist in any specialty is the formation of systematic knowledge of health and safety, life protection, the legal basis of relations between employer and employee in the implementation of his rights about healthy and safe working conditions. Nowadays, there has been a sweeping trend to a significant decreasing the auditorium hours of occupational safety, that prompted us to analyze the problematic issues and the creation of prospects for improving teaching of this discipline.

The aim of the study was analysis of teaching issues, justification of the expediency and the importance of training the discipline “Occupational Health and Safety” for future specialist in Pharmacy (Industrial pharmacy) and formation of proposals about ways to improve education approaches.

The article highlights the relevance of the study of pharmaceutical department students the discipline “Occupational Health and Safety”. According to the current problems and the global transition to a mixed form and e-learning in higher education establishments it’s noted the importance of changes in the organization of training. The psychosomatic features of students in the transition to distance learning are analyzed.

It is established that in today’s conditions the training of the future specialist with the appropriate awareness of safety situations is one of the most important areas of his professional education. For creating a systematic students’ understanding and consciousness, it’s necessary teaching discipline “Occupational Health and Safety”on the high scientific and technical level, with sufficient quantity of auditorium hours, applying various forms, means, techniques and innovative methods of e-learning activities with an accent on dual education. Special attention should be paid to inspection nand boosting in knowledge of regulatory and legislative acts, because of ignorance or violation of the law does not exempt a person from the responsibility.