Labour safety culture as a value orientation in the agro-specialist’s professional profile

The article substantiates the relevance of labour safety issues in modern agricultural production and its importance in the value orientations and professional competencies of agricultural specialists. A review of scientific articles is carried out to determine the key tracks of the discourse and analyze approaches to understanding labour safety by the professional community of agricultural specialists and scientists representing various subject areas of knowledge. We show the data of a survey of agricultural specialists in the south of Russia in the areas of agro-engineering, agronomy, plant protection, veterinary medicine and animal science, as well as a survey of employees of enterprises of the Stavropol Territory in rural and urban areas. The culture of labour safety as the value orientation of agricultural specialists is formed in the process of developing professional competence in the system of agricultural education and is supported in the production activities of agricultural enterprises through institutional mechanisms, corporate culture, requirements of technological processes