Increase of safety of operation of technical equipment for conducting emergency rescue work largely related to the increase of requirements to reliability the used equipment. In turn, the most reliability of technical facilities are being developed at the design stage, the construction and creation. Besides great importance is attached to creation of a complex of devices and safety systems, wich would monitor the status of the most important units and mechanisms of technical means, preventing emergency situations and breakdowns in their operation. At the present time in some of the most advanced countries are widely used remote control system of technical facilities, wich allows to take staff out of the danger zone.

Keywords: Safety, reliability, technical means, diagnostic, prevention, emergency, danger