Abstract
Purpose: to determine the motivation of employees of structural subdivisions of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine to improve their level of professional competence by means of physical training. Material: questionnaire survey of 130 rescue workers aged 25 to 40 years. Results: the main motives of rescue team personnel for physical culture and sports activities are gain in physical health and professional competence, while performing rescue missions. It was established that, when on duty, most of the firefighters and rescue workers are not engaged in physical exercise at all; household chores and poor state of health in case of men prevent rescue team employees from doing exercises outside of working hours. It was found that fire-rescue specialists give preference to the development of muscle strength during professional physical trainings and would like to perform power exercises. Conclusions: the low level of motivation of current fire-rescue workers for physical self-improvement requires optimization of control over professional physical education in departments of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Highlights
IntroductionOnly 102 academic hours a year are assigned for general and special physical training of operative units of subdivisions, shift (watch), group, squad (Order of services on emergency situations (SSES) of Ukraine No 601, dt 01.09.2009 “On approval of Regulations on Organization of civil defense subdivisions’ staff service training”)
They can not but concern system of firefighting-rescue officers’ training. It conditions seeking of innovative technologies, oriented on rising of effectiveness of pedagogic management and specialists’ professional training organization in State services on emergency situations (SSES) of Ukraine structures
Problems of professional training are regarded in works of many domestic and foreign scientists that is a basis of conceptual principles and scientific methodic grounds of emergency situations specialists’ training
Summary
Only 102 academic hours a year are assigned for general and special physical training of operative units of subdivisions, shift (watch), group, squad (Order of SSES of Ukraine No 601, dt 01.09.2009 “On approval of Regulations on Organization of civil defense subdivisions’ staff service training”) All these requirements can not ensure full fledged training. Results of the research Studying motives of firefighting-rescue specialists for physical culture – sport perfection and their significance in professional functioning, we determined that the most important motives for both male and female rescuers were the following: improvement of own health ( 1st rank), increasing of professional fitness (2nd rank); care of life and health of victims (3rd rank). It points at extremely low motivation of SSES of Ukraine officers for perfection of physical condition Such indicator is connected with fulfillment of service duties, absence of qualified instructors in physical training. It should be noted that only 10% of specialists in emergency situations consider their motion skills as sufficient for fulfillment of combat tasks
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