Working Regime Research Articles

Functional states in shift personnel at an oil exploration enterprise in the southeast of the Russian Federation

Introduction. Work in oil and gas exploration is intense, carried out on a shift (fly-in-fly-out) basis in the open air with alternating day and night shifts. 
 The analysis of the studies revealed the lack of information regarding the trend in the functional states of workers with different shift modes.
 Materials and methods. The study involved fifty eight shift workers at an oil exploration enterprise in the southeast of the Russian Federation with a 30 days shift period. 
 The study aim was to identify and describe the features of the trend in functional states in shift personnel at an oil exploration enterprise in the southeast of the Russian Federation with various work and rest regimes. To solve the tasks set, daily the functional states’ monitoring in morning and evening by workers was carried out using objective hardware (VCM, CVMR) and subjective (WAM, M. Luscher test) methods. Statistical methods are multivariate analysis of variance and descriptive statistics.
 Results. The features of trend in objective and subjective parameters of the functional states in the shift personnel at an oil exploration enterprise in the southeast of the Russian Federation with various work and rest regimes are revealed: 30D, 15D / 15N and 15N / 15D. It has been established that the personnel at an oil exploration enterprise with a work regime of 15D/15N is characterized by a greater severity of unfavourable functional states by the end of the shift period. 
 Limitations. The study limitations are the small sample size, which is due to the study being carried out at one site with the inclusion of the maximum number of workers located at the facility during the expedition. Workers with work regimes 15D/15N and 15N/15D differed in functional duties from the group of employees with work regime 30D. 
 Conclusion. The results and conclusions obtained make it possible to expand knowledge about the changes in the workers’ states at oil and gas producing enterprises with different shift regimes during the shift period and develop practical recommendations for their optimization.

A balancing act: radicality and capture in institutionalising reflexive governance for urban sustainability transitions

Over the past two decades, urban actors have sought to foster long-lasting change towards sustainability through reflexive governance. Related activities, including transition labs, arenas, experiments, and roadmaps, have been problematised for disparities between using a discourse of transformation and radicality while failing to materialise radical action and succumbing to ‘projectification’ – meaning that the impact of an intervention tends to evaporate after the initial experiment impulse. Enabling a transformative legacy of such interventions requires institutionalising reflexive governance arrangements, i.e. a process of integrating these arrangements as part of the existing institutional set-ups while maintaining ‘radical’ elements. Particularly as the focus in certain urban transitions shifts from emerging and supporting niche practices towards institutionalising new ways of working and breaking down regime structures, it becomes paramount to better understand such processes. Based on a comparative empirical analysis of six European cities, we explore how these cities attempt to institutionalise reflexive governance and take stock of the tensions encountered, particularly to what extent cities manage to safeguard their radical ambitions, or whether these become ‘captured’ in the process. Other highlighted tensions are a focus on internal dynamics, a struggle around voluntary structures and accountability, and a challenge of keeping momentum with new actor constellations while trying to address complexity and uncertainty. We conclude by putting forward three recommendations for how reflexive governance processes may increase their impact: through prioritising institutional embeddedness in and outside of the local authority; creating transparency around how governance arrangements are adjusted and modified throughout the process for accountability; and renewing commitment periodically to ensure continuity and commitment from actors involved.

Accelerating Convergence for the Parameters of PV Cell Models

Small-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems are essential for the local energy supply. The most commonly known PV cell is configured as a large-area p–n junction made from silicon, but PV systems today include PV cells of various manufactures and origins. The dependence relationship between current and voltage is nonlinear, known as the current–voltage characteristic. The values of the characteristic equation’s parameters define the working regime of the PV cell. In the present work, the parameter values are iteratively obtained by nonlinear regression for an explicit model. The acceleration of the convergence of these values is studied for an approximation simplifying the iterative calculation in the case of perpendicular offsets. The new estimations of parameters allow for a much faster estimate of the maximum power point of the PV system.

At the Intersection between Class and Gender: Unpaid Household Work and Macroeconomic Demand Regimes

At the Intersection between Class and Gender: Unpaid Household Work and Macroeconomic Demand Regimes

Анализ особенностей конструктивного исполнения и направления совершенствования многопульсовых выпрямительно-инверторных преобразователей для тяговых подстанций железных дорог

The article considers the parameters, characteristics, energy indicators, peculiarities of the structural embodiment and the regimes of work of multi-pulse inverting and rectifying-inverting converters for traction substations. These converters are intended to increase the energy efficiency and the safety of the work of the system of the traction DC electric power supply including the areas of the electric railways with heavy and high-speed railway traffic. The main advantages of the use of 12-pulse circuits of inverts in comparison to 6-pulse ones have been presented. The directions for further improvement of the multi-pulse inverting and rectifying-inverting converters for traction substations have been suggested.

Modifying the electronic and magnetic properties of the scandium nitride semiconductor monolayer via vacancies and doping.

In this work, the effects of vacancies and doping on the electronic and magnetic properties of the stable scandium nitride (ScN) monolayer are investigated using first-principles calculations. The pristine monolayer is a two-dimensional (2D) indirect-gap semiconductor material with an energy gap of 1.59(2.84) eV as calculated using the GGA-PBE (HSE06) functional. The projected density of states, charge distribution, and electron localization function assert its ionic character generated by the charge transfer from the Sc atoms to the N atoms. The monolayer is magnetized by a single Sc vacancy with a total magnetic moment of 3.00μB, while a single N vacancy causes a weaker magnetization with a total magnetic moment of 0.52μB. In both cases, the magnetism originates mainly from the atoms closest to the defect site. Significant magnetization is also reached by doping with acceptor impurities. Specifically, a total magnetic moment of 2.00μB is obtained by doping with alkali metals (Li and Na) in the Sc sublattice and with B in the N sublattice. Doping with alkaline earth metals (Be and Mg) in the Sc sublattice and with C in the N sublattice induces a value of 1.00μB. In these cases, either magnetic semiconducting or half-metallicity characteristics arise in the ScN monolayer, making it a prospective 2D spintronic material. In contrast, no magnetism is induced by doping with donor impurities (O and F atoms) in the N sublattice. An O impurity metallizes the monolayer; meanwhile, F doping leads to a large band-gap reduction of the order of 82%, widening the working regime of the monolayer in optoelectronic devices. The results presented herein may introduce efficient methods to functionalize the ScN monolayer for optoelectronic and spintronic applications.

Metabolic syndrome and the 10-year cardiovascular disease risk in urban public transport drivers in the context of occupational risks and workloads

The specific risks and workloads of urban public transport drivers create a net for the development of several health issues. It is worth mentioning the impact of the work regime on this type of workers’ metabolic and cardiovascular health. This paper represents a sequence from an ample study that has followed the effects of this professional activity on worker’s health and work capacity and has established prevention / reduction of identified risk factors measures. The health state analysis was realized through a prevalence study on three cohorts (bus, tram, trolleybus drivers). The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was the highest in the group of the bus drivers, 16.7%. The 10-year fatal cardiovascular disease risk in both the increased risk category and very increased risk category was the highest in the trolleybus drivers’ cohort, 29%, respectively 6%. Major contributing pathology, such as hypertension and type II diabetes, starts in the 36-45 years of age group regardless of gender in all three cohorts signalizing an early wear and is already important in the 46-55 years of age group.

CERCETĂRI EXPERIMENTALE PRIVIND RECOLTAREA STUFULUI CU AMBARCAȚIUNEA ELECTRICĂ “ERBA”

The article presents the results obtained from experimental research conducted with an electric equipment (a watercraft) for harvesting aquatic biomass (reed, cattail, water lily, etc.), remote controlled, symbolized as ERBA. This equipment was designed and built in Romania by researchers from INMA Bucharest and ICPE-CA, at the level of experimental model. The purpose of this equipment is to develop a national system of machines for cleaning lakes, navigable canals, and specific areas of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve from excess biomass that needs to be removed for the proper functioning of aquatic ecosystems. The harvested biomass is used as raw material for the production of liquid and gaseous fuels, as well as biofertilizers, which can be utilized as inputs in the bioeconomy. The phenological characteristics of the harvested biomass, the structural and functional characteristics of the vessel, the laboratory experimental records, the nautical indices, the exploitation indices, and the energy consumption were measured under different working conditions and regimes, and with different types of biomass.

CERCETĂRI PRIVIND PROCESELE DE DETAȘARE ȘI SEPARARE A FRUCTELOR DE CĂTINĂ CONGELATE DE PE RAMURI

Following the bibliographic and theoretical research carried out by the specialists of INMA Bucharest Institute, as well as the experience of sea buckthorn producers and processors, the experimental model of a high-performance equipment for separating frozen sea buckthorn fruits from the harvested mass (branches, fruits and leaves) was designed and made. Thus, the subject of this paper is the experimental research carried out on an improved equipment for detaching and separating frozen sea buckthorn fruits from the branches - ESFC. After an introduction in which the current state in the field was highlighted, the tested equipment was presented with the main functional parameters, adjustments necessary to obtain an optimal working regime suitable for the processed raw material. Following the experiments carried out, the main working indices of the equipment were determined, among which: the working capacity, the degree of separation of the fruits from impurities as well as the optimal functional regimes. Following the tests carried out, in two variants of arrangement of the paddle arms on the separation rotor, some conclusions were formulated, the most eloquent of which was that, for the equipment tested in Variant II equipped with the separation rotor, the highest values for the feed flow resulted for the angle of inclination of the paddle of 450 and the rotation speed of the rotor of 90 min-1 and a high degree of separation.

Socio-economic Aspects of the Crisis Caused by COVID-19: Effects of the Change in the Work Regime

The unprecedented measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a change in everyone’s lifestyle, but proved to be extremely detrimental to the psychological, social and economic well-being of a specific group in society, namely families with little children. In order to thoroughly analyze the challenges facing this crisis-stricken group, a qualitative study was carried out using the calendar interview method among 21 randomly selected working parents. The interviews were conducted in December 2021 - January 2022. All interviewed parents have worked in a changed mode of work. This means transitioning from work at the office to work at home and combining it with caring for children who are unable to attend kindergarten or school. The results of the study show that the change in the mode of work in combination with other factors was among the leading causes of stress for the parents and children with lockdown conditions. The effect was especially strong for the women.

Exploitation copyrights for a work created by an employee: trends, shortcomings and advantages of legal regulation

The problems of legal protection of rights to works created by employees in connection with the performance of an employment contract are related to the definition of their legal regime and subjects of exploitation rights. The relevance of the study of these issues is due to the prevalence of legal conflicts between the author - employee and employer; the lack of an established practice of concluding agreements on the distribution of exploitation rights to a work between these entities; inconsistency of legislative provisions and repeated changes in legal regulation. When conducting a scientific study, the tasks were to analyze the process of transformation of the legal regime of works created by an employee under the legislation of Ukraine, to determine the advantages and disadvantages of legal regulation, to study the experience of regulating similar relations in European countries. The purpose of the work is reflected in the formulated conclusions regarding the optimal model of regulation of these relations in the context of balanced protection of the rights of their subjects. The study of the outlined relationships was carried out using a number of scientific methods, in particular, dialectical, formal-logical, analysis and synthesis, system-structural, formal-legal, comparative-legal, logical-legal, method of interpreting legal norms, prognostic, method of legal modeling, logical and legal method. Studying the issues of practical application of the provisions of the legislation, judicial protection of the relevant rights, analysis of the positions of scientists and practitioners made it possible to draw a conclusion about the ineffectiveness of the model of regulation of joint copyrights of the employer and the employee. The current state of the studied relations, the experience of their regulation in European countries, the need to harmonize the law of Ukraine with the law of European countries prove the expediency of providing exploitation copyrights for works to the employer, as well as the possibility of including the copyright fee in the employee's salary. At any stage of the relationship, the employee and the employer retain the legal opportunity to enter into an agreement on the legal regime of works, the legal fate of exploitation rights to them, payment of royalties for the performance of certain tasks, etc. In order to eliminate conflicts between legal norms, in accordance with the established principles of copyright, amendments to the legislative provisions are proposed. In particular, it is proposed to provide for the emergence (rather than the transfer) of exploitation copyrights from the employer, as the primary subject, from the moment of creation of the work. The need to exclude from the law the norm on the employer's right to instruct other employees to complete, supplement and change works without the consent of their author is substantiated, since such actions can violate the author's moral right and harm his creative reputation. 

Internal Flow Characteristics of Novel Turbine Performance Enhancement Method through Specific Fluid Injection

Gas turbine engines are an essential component for many industries, such as aerospace, marine propulsion, energy generation, etc., with modern engines capable of achieving high powers, efficiencies and reliability. However, these high performances are achieved on a narrow interval of working regimes; when operating at partial loads, a drastic decrease in performance is expected. In order to mitigate this drawback, a novel injection method has been proposed to improve axial turbine and gas turbine engine performance at these regimes. The method consists of the injection of a fluid in specific sections of turbine vanes to accelerate the flow, modify the velocity triangles and increase the generated power at partial loads. In this paper, the authors discuss the internal flow characteristics of the injection channels using numerical studies to determine the flow fields for different working regimes. The results show that the power generated by the rotor can be improved by 10% to 21% for different operating regimes without considering the internal geometries. The introduction of internal flow configurations led to smaller improvements in power generation, obtaining injection system pressure losses of between 10% and 20%. The paper concludes that the flow through channels is not uniform, with smaller dimensions of the internal geometries leading to higher pressures and an increased influence of the injection system.

AN APPROACH ON THE DESCRIPTION OF A FLAT DRIVING BELT BEHAVIOUR MIRRORED IN TRANSMITTED MECHANICAL POWER

For driving belt condition monitoring, the main interest is the certification of the capacity to keep their qualities unchanged over a long period of time and secondary to detect the imminence of the catastrophic failure. This paper presents a study on the behaviour detection and description of a flat driving belt health condition, used in a rotary machine electrically driven, particularly a lathe headstock gearbox running idle. It was discovered that in the mechanical power transmitted from electromotor to gearbox via a flat belt some specific sinusoidal components (a fundamental and some harmonics) of variable power are generated. The description of these power components (by values of amplitude, frequency and phase at origin of time) is indirectly detectable in the evolution of the active electrical power absorbed by the drive electromotor. Two arguments are available for this approach. Firstly, there is a reasonable assumption that between the mechanical power and the active electrical power there is an approximated proportionality relationship through the power efficiency. Secondly, the evolution of the active electrical power (or mechanical power as well) is a deterministic signal with a low level of noise. A simple computer assisted procedure of active electrical power signal acquisition and data processing was conceived, the detection was done by computer aided curve-fitting procedures in Matlab applied on active electrical power evolution absorbed by the driving motor in stationary working regimes (the electromotor playing the role of a mechanical power sensor). Mainly two ways of graphic representation have been proposed in order to describe the variable power generated by this flat belt (in time and frequency domains). The behaviour of many other types of belts involved in rotary machines driving can be similarly described.

Placing career resilience: Collaborative workspaces as situated resources for adaptation and adaptability

Processes of creation and innovation become increasingly mobile and temporarily make use of collaborative (work)spaces for paid and unpaid work, tinkering, social experimentation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. Diverse forms of collaborative workspaces (CWSs) proliferated in many cities worldwide in the past 15 years and manifested in a diversity of forms, such as e.g. fablabs, maker-, hacker-, or coworking spaces. Despite the diversity, these spaces share three distinctive features: openness for a diversified set of users, aspiration to promote creative processes, and potential to allow for societal experimentation. So far, empirical research either highlights their functions in safeguarding the deficiencies related to new work regimes or the affordances for fostering collaborative creativity and innovation. We propose career resilience as a concept to integrate both perspectives. We investigate CWSs as locally situated contexts enabling users to combine stabilising and transformative resources to advance their careers. The paper draws on more than 100 qualitative interviews with operators, managers, and users of CWSs in the metropolitan regions Amsterdam, Berlin, and Detroit. We inductively develop five different types of practices that address fundamental career related uncertainties to individual and collective measures to create career resilience. In CWSs, users seek company, focus, assets, guidance, and meaning. CWSs are thus spatial and organisational settings that complement multisited, mobile work practices and that illustrate the importance of permanent organisational and material places in increasingly volatile working environments.

Features of the occupational prevalence in health workers in the Republic of Bashkortostan over 2017–2022

Introduction. The labour of health workers (HW) is associated with the impact of adverse factors of various nature including chemical, physical, biological, high neuro-emotional stress, physical activity. All these factors, high workload, round-the-clock working with night shifts, unpredictability of the state of health and responsibility for the life of the patient, high olccupational activity, constant psycho-emotional and intellectual stress make the labour of HW to be a complex and responsible type of human activity. Over recent (2020–2021) years, due to the emergence of a highly contagious Covid-19 viral infection, health workers have been in direct contact with patients.
 Objective. To determine the features of occupational morbidity among the HR in the Republic of Bashkortostan over 2017–2022 including the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Materials and methods. Data on occupational diseases in HW over 2017–2022 were studied on the base of the materials of the Republican Center for Occupational Pathology of the Ufa Scientific Research Institute of Occupational Medicine and Human Ecology. There were evaluated reports of the final diagnosis of an occupational disease, acts of investigation of occupational diseases, sanitary and hygienic characteristics of working conditions, a consolidated annual report on the activities of the Center.
 Results. The level of occupational morbidity increased from 0.6‱ in 2017 to 5,6‱ during 2021, i.e. increased by 9.3 times. The nosological, gender, age, occupational and experience structure of morbidity has changed. In 88.8% of cases, the diagnosis of an acute occupational disease due to coronavirus infection was established posthumously: in 2020 – 100%, in 2021 – 86.3%. There were 0.72 deaths from this infection per 1,000 health workers.
 Conclusions. To preserve the health and occupational longevity of HW, especially in the context of an epidemiological rise in infectious diseases, it is necessary to strengthen priority measures for primary and secondary prevention, provide personal protective equipment, strengthen disinfection measures, establish a special regime of work and rest, and other preventive and social protection measures.

Kepler's labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600.

Kepler's intricate trajectory, his self-reflective comments about the conditions of production of knowledge in his time, and the wealth of materials preserved make it possible to reconstruct a whole set of regimes of scholarly work around 1600, each with its typical mode of control, forms of subordination, temporal economy, and means of remuneration. Kepler's maneuvering in this landscape was shaped by his attempts to carve out spaces for the kind of work he considered his very own - his "speculations" or "private studies" - within work relationships involving service and subordination. Thus, we find nonalienated, self-directed scholarly work embedded, constrained, and enabled by heteronomous regimes of work, a field of tensions that I seek to capture in the formula "work within work." A labor history of science could thus offer us an opportunity for exploring historically documented, nonincidental and partly institutionalized forms of less alienated work, and trace the ways in which they related to and interacted with dominant relations of production.

‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India

This article addresses the complex ways in which poor urban women’s educational and training needs are embedded in official discourses of capacity creation and are constructed in opposition to their community and kinship networks, an aspect that is very often overlooked when such programmes are designed. It argues that this oversight is not a coincidence, as neoliberal policies and discourses of empowerment construct young women as ‘subjects of capacity’. Where they are addressed directly, young women are framed as the single, autonomous subjects of liberalism who, once enabled, overcome ‘traditional’ kin and community attachments. Based on the ethnographic study of vocational training for beauticians provided by an Indian NGO, the article argues that such interventions are geared towards ‘community development’ and therefore reference broader social landscapes, but that the participants in training see themselves and the process as part of, rather than as opposed to, kin and community obligations. While education and training are more often than not conceived as stand-alone projects offering young women a way into employment and the labour market, the article foregrounds the class-based limits of such workist approaches and the entanglements between body work, caste/class, and histories of feminized poverty. It demonstrates how young women from lower-caste and lower-class backgrounds see opportunities in the beauty industry mainly as supporting their roles as responsible daughters, future wives and daughters-in-law realized within the complex economies of marginal urban communities. They are also acutely aware that while the actual work of the beautician allows some access to the world of ‘professional’ modern and classed notions of femininity and, arguably, a more dignified workplace than in domestic service, the pitfalls of an industry built on gendered, racialized and classist inclusions and hierarchies are noted too. Critiquing the mainstream feminist focus on access to the labour market, the article argues that young women are fully aware of their own precarious relationship with ideals of neoliberal constructs of autonomous subjectivities promoted by the state and its agents.

INCREASING THE GASLIFT EFFECTIVENESS BY ADJUSTING MULTIPHASE FLOW HYDRAULIC CHARACTERISTIC

Real media that are encountered in hydrocarbon production industry are normally represented by systems, comprised of at least two phases, of which one is dispersed and distributed in another. As it is known, production, gathering, preparation and transport of oil and natural gas are based on multiphase technology, comprised of lifting the hydrocarbons from the formation to the surface, transport to the separation facilities, separation and intrafield transport of multiphase mixtures, consisting of oil, natural gas, formation water and mechanical particles. This article strives to determine the optimal work regimes of production of gaslift systems based on the relations between production rates and gas pressure in cylindrical flows. Knowing the parameters of the well borehole as well as the parameters of the produced fluid and gas injection rates it is possible to determine the optimal flow regime as a derivative of a function of pressure losses versus production rates (ΔP/Q). This function is called the flow hydraulic characteristic, and it is this function, by optimizing which an optimal flow regime of the gaslift operated well can be achieved. Estimation the hydraulic characteristic relies heavily on calculation of pressure losses of the gaslift producing well. These losses consist of two independent factors: gravitational and frictional. Frictional pressure losses have linear dependence versus the flow rate, while gravitational losses exhibit an inverse, hyperbolic, correlation to changes in flow rate. To get the full picture of the pressure loss both aspects must be accurately calculated from the given field data. In order to do so, it is important to estimate real gas content of the multiphase flow, which is a complex function of direction and velocity of the multiphase flow, gas and liquid flow rates, gas slippage, etc. Once the pressure losses have been calculated it is comparatively simple to optimise the gas flow rate to adjust the hydraulic characteristic, guiding the gaslift production process towards optimal production rates. Keywords: Gaslift, multiphase flow, pressure losses, joint transport, gas content.

Working Regime Criteria for Microscale Electrohydrodynamic Conduction Pumps.

We investigated the microscale electrohydrodynamic (EHD) conduction pumps in a wide range of working regimes, from the saturation regime to the ohmic regime. We showed that the existing macro- and microscale theoretical models could not accurately predict the electric force of microscale EHD conduction pumps, especially for the cases of a strong diffusion effect. We clarified that the failure is caused by a rough estimate of the heterocharge layer thickness. We revised the expression of heterocharge layer thickness by considering the diffusion effect and developed a new theoretical model for the microscale EHD conduction pumps based on the revised expression of heterocharge layer thickness. The results showed that our model can accurately predict the dimensionless electric force of the microscale EHD conduction pumps even for the cases of a strong diffusion effect. Furthermore, we developed a working regime map of microscale EHD conduction pumps and found that the microscale EHD conduction pumps more easily fall into the saturation regime compared with the macroscale EHD conduction pumps due to the enhanced diffusion effect; in other words, the microscale EHD conduction pumps have a wider saturation regime. We showed that the conduction number C0 could not distinguish the working regime of the microscale EHD conduction pumps because it does not take the diffusion effect into account. By employing the revised expression of heterocharge layer thickness, we proposed a new dimensionless number, C0D to distinguish the working regimes of microscale EHD conduction pumps.

Work intensity and work modification amid implementation of anti-epidemic activities

Introduction. Assessment of work intensity (WI) is challenged by several methodical complications. It may involve certain underestimation of an actual hazard category of working conditions and fails to consider work modification. 
 Materials and methods. The study relies on using analytical, sociological, and statistical methods. To test the selected approach, a sample was created from workers with mostly mental work (n=137, 77% females). Their average age was 43.9±8.0 years; average work experience was 14.5±3.7 years. 
 Results. In this article, we suggest certain approaches to assessing WI. They include self-assessment of a factor using a specifically designed questionnaire; they clarify indicators that describe WI; when assessing working conditions, they rely on matrices of interrelated indicators. This procedure makes it possible to estimate levels of individual components and create an integral WI profile as well as identify contributions made by various intensity types to its overall structure. When testing the procedure, we established workers with mostly mental work to tend to have harmful working conditions as per WI factor (the hazard category 3.1 in 24.8% of the cases; 3.2, 56.9% of the cases; and the hazard category 3.3 in 17.5% of the cases). Mental (28.6±6.1%) and sensory (24.0±7.0%) loads are limiting components. Amid implementation of anti-epidemic activities, work regime was established as the most sensitive WI component (its contribution grew from 11.1±6.0 to 16.0±5.7%, p<0.05). Working conditions moved to a higher hazard category for 35.8% workers.
 Limitations. Assessment of working conditions uses threshold values introduced more than 30 years ago and can be adjusted for the existing employment conditions. The testing was accomplished on a rather small sample, which was biased as per gender and included workers with different occupations and positions.
 Conclusion. The suggested approaches offer wider opportunities to assess working conditions as per WI with respect to some occupations. This may substantiate a list of indicators that should be regulated by the existing sanitary legislation. Investigation of possible modification of factors during the pandemic makes it possible to describe eligibility of anti-epidemic activities without any deterioration of working conditions.