Theoretical and methodical fundamentals of future experts of mechanical engineering training for labor protection professional activity, based on praxeology; phenomenology; phenomenology; humanistic paradigm of philosophy of education; provisions of systemic, personal-activity, competence, axiological, resource, and synergetic approaches; modern didactic approaches regarding the content, methods and technologies of professional training of future specialists in technical specialties are scientifically substantiated and developed in the dissertation.
On the basis of theoretical and methodological analysis of scientific sources and features of future specialists training in technical specialties for occupational safety, trends of training mechanical engineers in the conditions of transformation of Ukrainian society, educational and professional programs and best practices in mechanical engineering in foreign countries the ways of formation in the students of higher education establishments of the technical profile of labour protective competence as a necessary condition and means of personal and professional growth are suggested. The state of future specialists of mechanical engineering preparation for labor professional activity corresponds to modern tendencies of higher school of Ukraine development and is built on the principles of modern paradigm of education. In terms of the initiated research, we consider labor competence as a result of professional training of future mechanical engineering specialists for occupational safety activities, as such an approach was initiated by the Standards of Higher Education of Ukraine.
Comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of future specialists in mechanical engineering training for occupational safety allowed to determine the principles of formation of occupational competence, build and experimentally test the structural and functional model of the formation of occupational competence of future mechanical engineers, justify and implement effective formation of occupational safety competence in future specialists of mechanical engineering. The model is based on the presence of a social order for highly qualified machine-building workers, contains a goal, three structural blocks (theoretical-methodological, content-technological and control-diagnostic), the predicted result and reproduces the organization of the process of future mechanical engineers training for occupational safety. its connections, properties, characteristics and features.
It is proved that application of the developed methodical provision for the preparation of the future specialists of mechanical engineering for labor protection professional activity, updating of the content, realization of the substantiated organizational and pedagogical conditions, promotes effective formation of all components of labor protection competence of future specialists of mechanical engineering. The relevance and necessity of the developed methodological support and organizational and pedagogical training of future specialists in mechanical engineering for occupational safety activities was established by expert evaluation. To obtain reliable results for the selected group of experts, the concordance coefficient was calculated, the experts' answers were processed using the methods of mathematical statistics and the use of the concordance coefficient.
Checking of the level of formation of structural components of future mechanical engineers’ labor competence was carried out taking into account the peculiarities of their content and using the criteria defined in the study of labor competence (theoretical, practical, personal and value-based) and outlined levels (initial, sufficient, reproductive). The general level of formation of labor protection competence of future specialists in mechanical engineering was determined on the basis of the levels of formation of each criterion using fuzzy logic algorithms (Tsukamoto algorithm).
