Environmental safety competence in the educational environment of a marine university

The author raises an idea that environmental safety competence depends on the educational environment of the university. The author focuses on environmental safety of the educational environment at marine university from the position of competence-risk, environment-risk, activity-risk and situational-risk approaches. The article analyzes the specific features of the competence of environmental safety of a marine specialist on the basis of curriculum, teaching and methodological support; a set of educational measures; creating interdisciplinary environmental projects, risk situations; funds of valuation funds, risk assessment methods and stressful situations, etc. The author proposes a system of quality control, environmental risks and resources of the university, which together form the competence of the environmental safety of a marine specialist. The article reveals the content of ecology of a student, educational environment, production, as components of the competence of environmental safety. The author proposes criteria for assessment of environmental safety competence as satisfaction, manageability, communication, stress tolerance, adaptability and being environmental friendly.The theoretical and practical capacities of environmental safety of educational environment at marine university is based on the principles of quality control, risks, resources and situational awareness. So the principle of risk management is based on the principle of substitution (acceptable environmental risk with fewer losses); awareness (of environmental risk); management (regulation) aimed at reducing environmental risk; eco-development (environmental friendliness), the principle of resource management of the university allows to improve the environmental safety conditions of the educational environment and forms its resource component. The principle of situational awareness is necessary for building competence in environmental safety of a marine specialist, as it allows teaching students to act in non-standard risky situations. Implementation of the principles in their unity is confirmed by the environmental safety laws of educational environment: personal social, aimed at the ecology of the individual, informative, organizational, aimed at the ecology of the environment, information, management, aimed at the ecology of production. The issue of educational environment as a means and system of building environmental safety competence of students by means of administrative decisions made on the basis of risk assessment, quality control and capacities and resources of higher institution is to be discussed. 

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