On the development of the system of risk-based supervision in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population and consumer protection

• Main Authors: A.Y. Popova, N.V. Zaitseva, I.V. May, D.A. Kiryanov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: FBSI “Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies” 2015-12-01
• Series: Analiz Riska Zdorovʹû
• Subjects: risk-based sanitary and epidemiological surveillance; the population under exposure
• Online Access: http://journal.fcrisk.ru/eng/2015/4/1
• ISSN: 2308-1155; 2308-1163

In order to fulfill the legal requirements for the transition to the new risk-based model of the state control (supervision) in the Federal Service for Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, the methodical approaches to the classification of economic entities and activities of potential risk of injury have been developed. The risk assessment takes into account the frequency of violations of sanitary legislation, the severity of the consequences of these violations for the health and extent of negative effects, which is estimated in terms of population under the influence of the economic entity. Algorithms and methods for calculating the exposed population: workers, consumers, including consumer food products, non-food products and services; residents of settlements under the negative impact of air pollution, water and soil, have been developed. Regional and federal registries of objects for sanitary and epidemiological supervision are formed. Testing of the risk-based approaches in the regions allowed excluding the low risk harm objects when forming the audit plans for 2016, due to what the number of planned inspections all over country was reduces by more than 20 %. The basic directions of further improvement of the risk-based model of sanitary and epidemiological surveillance: its extension to the system of technical regulation and consumer protection; scientific substantiation of its volume, content and laboratory support of the scheduled inspections of objects belonging to different classes of health risk; improving procedures and methods for evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of risk-based supervisory activities; creation of an effective system of risk communication between the sanitary and epidemiological surveillance, economic entities, public organizations and associations and civil society.