PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CRITERIA AND METHODS OF OCCUPATIONAL SCREENING OF MOTOR-VEHICLE DRIVERS

As evidenced, individuals in whom the mobility of nervous processes is at a low level are not fit for the vocation of the motor-vehicle driver. A procedure for identifying individuals with a low level of the nervous processes mobility has been worked out for the purpose of occupational screening. It includes; (a) recording of an ECG for 2 minutes at rest in the sitting posture; (b) recording of an ECG for 2 minutes while accomplishing a mental task with the Schulte table (finding red and black figures failing in the Schulte table); (c) calculating from the ECG the pulse rate during 2 min. at rest and while accomplishing the mental task; (d) calculating the shift of the pulse rate under a mental load to that at rest (in percent). A pulse rate shift by not more than 11-12 percent bears proof with a probability of 88 percent to a low mobility level in the examinee, which justifies considering him unfit for the job of a motor-vehicle driver. /Author/

• Corporate Authors:

  Mezhdunarodanya Kniga

  Smolenskaja Ploscad 32/34
  Moscow G-200,   USSR 
• Authors:
  • Moldavskaya, S I
  • Zagoradnyaya, V F
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 24-27
• Serial:
  • Gigiyena Truda i Professional'nye Zabolevaniya
  • Volume: 5
  • Publisher: Mezhdunarodanya Kniga

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Psychological aspects; Stress (Psychology); Woven fabrics
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00178228
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Safety Council Safety Research Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 19 1978 12:00AM