ACTIVITIES OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL CERVICE ON AVIATION ACCIDENT PREVENTION

Abstract

Based on the content analysis of legal and legislative acts, as well as official documents of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the prevention of aviation accidents, the activity of the head of the medical service (aviation doctor) on the prevention of aviation accidents has been investigated. It has been established that in medical provision of flight safety, in order to prevent aviation accidents, the number of the most characteristic hazards is multiple of their number in all other types of support. At the same time, the number of main general measures to prevent erroneous, incorrect actions of personnel is also more than in other types of flight safety. The most frequently repeated factors dangerous in the medical support of flights are noted and the main general measures carried out by the personnel of the medical service of aviation units to prevent erroneous (incorrect actions) of the personnel are given. Conclusions were drawn on the low efficiency of concentrating efforts to eliminate flight accidents in certain areas of activity of the Chief of Medical Service of the Aviation Unit and on the expediency of complex impact on the whole set of factors that are elements of flight safety. It is shown that the work of the aviation doctor to prevent aviation accidents has a pronounced preventive direction of actions, in the process of professional activity the chief of the medical service emphasizes not only the state of health, but also the prediction of the functional state and efficiency of the pilot. It has been revealed that the basis for the effective work of the aviation doctor to prevent aviation accidents is the priority of measures aimed at increasing the role of the human factor, so it is advisable to emphasize in the training of the aviation doctor (chief of the medical service of the aviation unit) the formation of high mental stability, psychophysiological and moral-will qualities necessary for official activity.