The article justifies technical and organizational solutions aimed at improving the operational properties of hoisting equipment, the development of methods and means of controlling the operational state of existing systems in complex mining-geological and mining-engineering conditions. Technical solutions of a new type of hoisting machines with two consecutive friction pulleys, which have significantly higher load characteristics and allow usage of less metal-intensive and energy-intensive hoisting machines, are considered. The order of estimation of a state of a mine shaft and general types of work on its monitoring are justified. Conceptual foundations of intensification of mining operations in the mines of Ukraine are defined based on modernization of hoisting equipment units and improvement of a control system.