Environmental safety: modern legal approaches to risk management

Abstract

Despite of existence of a sufficient set of environmental requirements in the legislation of the Russian Federation in the area of industrial safety, the accident level in general remains very high. The article analyzes the reasons for this situation and makes recommendations. In particular, these are incompleteness of information about environmental incidents, emergency situations, imperfection of technical norms, “non-ecologization” of legislation of industrial safety, confusion of legal regimes of environmental safety and of normal routine operation, and, as the most significant reason — the need to harmonize domestic legislation and law enforcement with the best foreign risk management practices.