Corrective and restorative means to improve job performance and prevention of over-voltage workers

Improvement of professional reliability and development of means of prevention of overstrain of workers of nervous and stressful work, including locomotive drivers, is an important problem of physiology of work.

On the basis of complex researches of reasonable measures of corrective and restorative nature to improve the reliability of knowledge workers is hard work depending on the degree of hazard factors of the labor process.

A complex of psychophysiological research methods was used, including a professional graphic analysis of labour activities. Physiological studies of the functional stress of the body include an assessment of the characteristics of the Central nervous and cardiovascular systems. Subjective assessment of the state and strength of the motive was carried out on the test «Health, activity, mood» (SAN). Th e objects of research were employees of various professional groups. 3 groups of workers of locomotive crews are allocated: «unreliable», «conditionally reliable», «reliable». Th e age structure of the examined persons is 30–50 years, the experience is 5–15 years (about 500 people were examined in total). Th e results were processed by methods of variation statistics.

The results of testing the eff ectiveness of the complex of psychological, pedagogical and psychotherapeutic tools to improve the reliability of employees of locomotive crews are presented. For the prevention of overstrain, various modes of work and rest and means of correction of the functional state of workers of neuro-emotional mental work are proposed and tested. Th e study of the eff ectiveness of corrective-restorative means of improving the reliability of railway workers, which allowed to achieve improvements in the performance of functional, personal and professional reliability of workers of locomotive crews. Th e developed measures aimed at preventing the development of overstrain in employees of neuro-emotional mental work signifi cantly reduce the «physiolog ical cost» of work, which is manifested by the lack of increase in the degree of tension of the body systems and the later development of fatigue.

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