The European Court of Human Rights decisions concerning the protection of certain labor-related human rights have been considered. Legal positions the state positive obligations to ensure the protection of the right to life against industrial risks.
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EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE IN THE AREA OF INDUSTRIAL SAFETY Taran O. - Doctor of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Leading Research Fellow of Science Laboratory on the Problems of Pre-Trial Investigation of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kiev, Ukraine The European Court of Human Rights decisions concerning the protection of certain labor-related human rights have been considered. Legal positions regarding the state positive obligations to ensure the protection of the right to life against industrial risks, right for industrial (manufacturing) risks information, expediency of criminal proceedings involving hazardous activities have been analyzed. The ECHR has the right to: 1) consider individual and inter-state complaints filed before the ECHR against one or more member States of the Council of Europe or against the European Union; 2) accept the fact that the right of the applicant has been violated; 3) award the applicant with further compensation; 4) interpret the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; 5) establish the fact that any violation in a particular state is a massive phenomenon due to the endemic problems, therefore to require the state concerned to take relevant actions; 6) consider the enquiry of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in regards to whether the respondent state has violated its obligation for the execution of ECHR judgments (decisions); 7) interpret a previously passed decision on the request of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe; 8) make advisory opinions on the interpretation of the Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in matters not related to the consideration of cases [1]. According to statistics, at the beginning of 2017 the largest number of complaints filed to ECHR were against Ukraine (18 131 complaints).