Risk factors for developing diseases in locomotive crew workers

Abstract

Railway transport performs an essential economic and social role. Moreover, railway transport is steadily developing in terms of engineering technologies, strategically and economically, ensuring the development of remote and hard-to-reach regions of the Russian Federation. Factors that negatively affect the health of railway transport workers, primarily locomotive crews, researchers divided into several groups: physical production factors (noise, vibration, electromagnetic influences, workplace microclimate); factors related to the peculiarities of the production process organization (shift work schedule, irregular working hours, processing); behavioral risk factors (compliance by employees of locomotive crews with the principles of rational nutrition, recommendations for physical activity, the presence or absence of bad habits). Combining these risk factors affects railway transport workers and can lead to the potentiation of their combined effect. Each group of persons involved in railway traffic has its risk factors and their combinations in one way or another. The review provides a detailed description of the principal risk factors affecting the health of railway transport workers.