Educational and methodological manual "Life safety" for students of medical specialties of higher educational institutions

Abstract

Introduction. Problem of protection people from the dangers arose with the advent humanity in the world. In the XXI century humanity has entered a difficult period in the history of it’s development, when it possessed an enormous scientific and technical potential, but has not yet learned how to carefully and efficiently use it. Rapid urbanization and industrialization, a sharp increasing in world population, the intensive using of chemicals in agriculture, strengthening of many other types of human pressure on nature, violated the biological cycle of substances in nature, damaged its regenerative mechanisms, and began its progressive destruction. This jeopardized the health and lives of present and future generations of people, the existence of human civilization. Throughout history, humanity strives to make life comfortable. In the human quest for knowledge often means replacing the target and person becomes an appendage to the created by himself, and his creations are a threat to him. As a normative educational discipline, “Life Safety” is an integrated humanitarian-technical discipline that summarizes information relevant for scientific and practical activities, forms a conceptual-categorical theoretical-methodical apparatus necessary for the further development of labor protection, environmental protection, civil protection and other disciplines studying specific dangers and methods of protection against them. This training course does not address specific security issues. This is a question of special subjects, such as labor protection, civil protection, industrial ecology, communal hygiene, etc. As a world view discipline, the safety of life involves general education in the field of safety, is a scientific and methodological basis for all special disciplines without exception. It is based on a multifaceted understanding of the object and perception of reality, which requires the integration of various strategies, spheres, aspects, forms and levels of knowledge. A specialist who has mastered the subject “Life Safety” acquires special competencies to act in conditions of danger and protect himself, his life and health, and the life and health of others.