eng Estonian Academic Agricultural Society Agraarteadus 1024-0845 2228-4893 2019-11-29 30 Special Issue 2 56 61 10.15159/jas.19.16 article Vladimir Shkrabak 1 Sergei Levashov 1 Roman Shkrabak 1 Vasily Kaljuga 1 Eda Merisalu 2 Toivo Kabanen 2 Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University, Pushkin-1, Box No 1, 196600, St.-Petersburg, Russia. v.shkrabak@mail.ru Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Technology, Chair of Energy Application Engineering, Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 56, 51006 Tartu, Estonia. eda.merisalu@emu.ee Transition to the concept of professional risk management assumes the transfer of focus from measures of response to accidents after they have happened to activities for preventive measures, i.e. risk management of workers' health. The strategy of "reactive" response within the framework of the traditional system of managing occupational safety of workers focused primarily on compensating for the negative consequences of accidents. However, it does not focus on eliminating the systemic causes of their occurrence and, as a result, does not lead to positive changes in reducing traumas and injuries. The results of the analysis of the socio-economic efficiency of this strategy suggest the need for a transition to a different type of occupational safety management – which is "proactive", therefore the priorities are not the management of "occupational environment", but the management of "employee work safety", based on identification and assessment of professional risks. The calculation of the economic efficiency of measures for employee protection and the prevention of industrial injuries on the example of agricultural workers in the Kurgan region was the aim of the present study. http://agrt.emu.ee/pdf/2019_si2_shkrabak.pdf work safety traumas efficiency of safety management