PROFESSIONALLY IMPORTANT QUALITIES OF LOCOMOTIVE CREW AT RUSSIAN RAILRAODS
There are given the study results of professionally important qualities (PIQ) of locomotive crew depending on service time, a post and a kind of movement. Such professionally important qualities as switching attention, noise immunity, stress resistance and alertness (readiness for emergency action) of railway train drivers and their assistants of freight and suburban traffic were studied. It is shown that there are no systematic differences between the PIQs of locomotive crew employees, which may be a consequence of the obsolescence of the professional testing procedure or its imperfection. The results of the study provide the basis for justifying the need of correcting the test procedure for railway train drivers, which is a condition for road traffic safety.