Fire and explosion safety management at fuel and energy facilities in special conditions

Introduction. The decision-makers (DM) are bear responsibility for fire safety (FS) at the fuel and energy complex (FEC) facilities. There is the fact of the impact of production intensification and data volume growth on the intensity of the load on the human resources. Which in turn increases the probability of errors of the DM. Automation and the use of information technologies allow us to optimize production processes. However, the level of responsibility of the DM is not reduced. In addition, it is noted that the reserve of time for decision making at the FEC facilities is being reduced. The objective of scientific research is to substantiate the relevance and necessity of using strategic planning methods in improving the planning of fire and explosion safety (FES) activities at the FEC facilities in special conditions. Theoretical bases. Such concepts as strategy, aggregate goal, planning horizon, target function, and non-formalized information are analyzed. The necessity of creating a tree of plans for the DM in order to conduct and control actions over the management object is justified. There is described the relationship between an aggregate goal and a strategy consisting of a sequence of actions by the DM to achieve certain values of aggregate quality indicator. Research results. This part of article justifies the necessity of applying strategic planning methods in order to preserve the performance indicators for DM at FEC facilities in the direction of FES in changing special conditions. The characteristics of these conditions and the reasons for their occurrence are presented. In the absence of necessary planning and management methods in such conditions, the acceptable response time to a change in the environment will be exceeded. In order to overcome the tendency to reduce the efficiency of DM at FEC facilities in special conditions, it is proposed to use the software-hardware complex of the information and analytical system for strategic planning of FES activities. Conclusion. Finally, it was noted the relationship between the number of errors of DM in the decision making process for subsystems of the FES and the increase in the volume of information from the means of accumulation and transmission data. It is really important to adapt the FES subsystems to the new special conditions with the use suggested information and analytical system for strategic planning.