Abstract
Introduction . Timely and effective identification and assessment of all hazards and occupational risks is one of the urgent problems in the prevention of occupational injuries of industrial workers. Both legislative and regulatory acts and a number of foreign and domestic authors offer various approaches to such an assessment, the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of which is the subject of this article Problem statement . The objective of this study is a critical analysis of the existing approaches to the assessment of hazards and occupational risks of workers in industrial enterprises. Theoretical part . As the basic information, state regulatory methods were used, as well as methods for assessing the occupational risks of employees of industrial enterprises, proposed by various authors. Conclusions . According to the results of the analysis, the ways of solving the problem of preventing occupational injuries of industrial workers on the conditions of "preliminary" assessment of their occupational risks, i.e. before the occurrence of negative events, are determined.