Study of specific professional activities of electrician-engineers of railway transport
The purpose of this article is to research the specific features of professional activity of railway engineer-electricians and to identify professionally important physical, psychophysical and psychological abilities of professionals. There were 96 professional engineer-electricians of Ukrainian railway involved in the research, whose work experience was from 1 to 36 years. It was concluded that the most important physical qualities for engineer-electricians of railway are endurance, strength, coordination, agility, psychophysical: attention span, memory, psychological: the balance, resistance to stress and sociability. It was found that the specific features of professional activity of railway engineer-electricians are due to all-day variable duty on objects near the railroad tracks, which is outdoors in any climate and weather conditions and elimination of emergency situations at any time.