An urgent task of management, the solution of which is necessary for the full implementation of the supervisory functions of officials of state inspectors, is the optimal assessment of the amount of resources expended. As a result of the work, an analysis of information on labor costs for the performance of the functions of state inspectors of small vessels was carried out. The general approach of the work was reduced to the choice and implementation of methods for obtaining and processing information, taking into account the specifics of supervisory and preventive activities. Based on the analysis of the information and generalization of the research results, a draft methodology for calculating and optimizing the personnel of units related to supervisory and preventive activities was proposed.

Keywords: supervisory activities; small boats; normative number; optimization; norm of time; systems approach