The textbook is intended for students of higher education regardless of the profile, institution and direction of study, which determined its main goal - the acquisition by the student of general cultural and professional competences, knowledge, abilities and skills in matters of occupational safety, life safety and civil protection.The academic discipline "Life Safety" uses the achievements and methods of fundamental and applied sciences: philosophy, biology, physics, chemistry, sociology, psychology, ecology, economics, management, etc. - and enables the graduate to solve professional tasks in a certain specialty, taking into account the risk of internal and external dangers causing emergency situations and their negative consequences.