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Transport and Communications Minister Aleksey Avramenko held a working meeting with the chairman of BelProfTrans Nikolai Matyuk on the issue of labor protection at enterprises.The purpose of the meeting was to discuss additional measures to prevent the facts of industrial injuries in the organizations of railway transport and road facilities.As it was announced at the end of the first half of 2020 the target indicators of the Labor Protection subprogram in general for the Ministry of Transport were met. At the same time Nikolai Matyuk said that trade unions are recording an increase in industrial injuries.In this connection the head of the transport department drew attention to the need to expand the practice of holding seminars on this topic Single Safety Days as well as to strengthen medical and technological control in organizations.The trade union exercises public control over compliance with labor protection legislation. Taking into account the elimination of departmental control it is extremely important for us to know about the situation in organizations in order to make the necessary management decisions. Our joint task today is to improve the mechanisms and build an appropriate control system said Alexey Avramenko.The minister also stressed that this work includes increasing the effectiveness of public control over the observance of production and technological discipline. In particular organizations need to pay special attention to the approaches to training and instructing in labor protection. In turn the head of the scientific and technical policy department Yuri Dubina informed that the Ministry of Labor is currently revising the basic documents on labor protection. As part of the research carried out and in connection with the change in the relevant legislation the Ministry of Transport has developed new editions of the rules on labor protection during the operation of road and urban electric transport and rules on protection during the construction reconstruction overhaul and operation of highways.In conclusion the participants of the meeting agreed to establish an exchange of data for a prompt response intensify information work to prevent injuries as well as to take joint efforts to improve the regulatory legal framework in the field of labor protection.