ABOUT SOME ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL RELIABILITY OF LOCOMOTIVE DRIVERS

Abstract

Increased requirements to certain professionally significant qualities (PSQ) are shown by a trade of the locomotive driver, and it means, what not every physically and mentally healthy person can successfully seize the given trade and provide further necessary level of professional reliability and safety on a railway transportation. Professional reliability of locomotive driver – ability to preservation of demanded PSQ in extreme conditions of activity. The close interrelation and interdependence’s degree of development PSQ and professional reliability allows considering process of their formation, perfection and development as the system which backbone factor is its purpose - formation of professional reliability, and a feedback mechanism - result - the level of the articulation PSQ. The most effective way of development PSQ – special exercises prior to the beginning of activity, on separate actions of forthcoming activity. Specific feature of labour activity of the locomotive driver of the main movement is work in the conditions of long influence of monotonous factors, as serves as the incentive reason causing a condition of monotony at which the mental activity directed on regulation and control over activity decreases. Different in degree of monotony of working conditions cause also distinctions of characteristics of a condition of monotony, but the picture of this condition in the main will be same. Hence, stability formation to monotony and knowledge of ways and means of improvement of mechanisms of self-checking and self-control can raise efficiency of professional work not only locomotive drivers, but also other experts whose activity is realized in the conditions of monotonously operating factors.