Legal principles of social insurance against an accident at work and an occupational disease
Authors: Soloviov Oleksii 
Published: October 2020

Problem setting. To address practical issues related to the reform of the social insurance system for accidents at workand occupational diseases in Ukraine, it is necessary to explore doctrinal provisions relating to the principles of socialsecurity law, as well as to analyze certain principles of social insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseasesand propose changes to the legislation to formulate certain principles.
Target of research. The purpose of this article is to analyze the legal principles of social insurance against accidentsat work and occupational diseases and to develop changes to the legislation in terms of formulating certain principles ofthis institution.Analysis of recent researches and publications. Issues of principles of law in domestic legal science were consideredin scientific works on the general theory of law of such scientists as Yu. P. Bytyak, A. M. Kolodii, S. P. Porebnyak,P. M. Rabinovych, Yu. M. Todyka, M. V. Сvik and many others. Some aspects of the principles of social security law areconsidered in the scientific works of V. M. Andreev, B. I. Stashkiv, B. S. Stychinsky, S. M. Sivak, N. M. Stakhovskaya,S. M. Prilipko. The dissertation researches of T. Z. Garasimov “Principles of the law of social security”, and alsoO. V. Moskalenko “Principles of social insurance in modern conditions of management” deserves special attention. However,a comprehensive study of the principles of social insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases hasnot been conducted.
Article’s main body. The article is devoted to the study of the principles of legal regulation of compulsory statesocial insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases. The notion of the principles of law is analyzed, inparticular, it is noted that the principles of law are the basic, guiding positions, ideas that express the essence of law as aspecific social regulator. It is emphasized that legal principles are divided into the inherent law as a whole (common law),its individual branches (sectoral) or a group of related industries (intersectoral), as well as the principles of individualinstitutions.
The paper analyzes in detail some of the principles specified in Article 3 of the Law of Ukraine “On CompulsoryState Social Insurance”: the principle of legislative definition of the conditions and procedure for social insurance; compulsoryinsurance of persons in accordance with the types of social insurance and the possibility of voluntary insurancein cases provided by law; providing state guarantees for the realization of their rights by insured persons; formation anduse of insurance funds on the basis of solidarity and subsidies, etc.
Conclusions and prospects for the development. Based on the analysis of the principles of social insurance againstaccidents at work and occupational diseases enshrined in the legislation, it is proposed to supplement this list with theprinciple of self-government, which stipulates that all members of the insurance system, ie insured and insurers, areequally responsible for insurance fund management.