ACTIVE INTER-WATCH REST AS A METHOD OF DISTRESS PREVENTION OF SHIPS' OPERATORS

摘要

Work of ship's operator is characterized by high neural emotional effort as well as low level of physical loading and impellent activity. It leads to progress of many typical dynamic breaches in cardio-vascular, sceleton-muscular and nervous diseases. Danger of progress of a such diseases is redoubed by the fact that at out-of-work time seamen are under condition of heightened noise and vibration, they are undergo to pitching-and-rolling and actions of another non-auspicious physical, chemical and psychophysiological factors of ship's environment. Only this fact defines the character of inter-watch rest of ships' operators. The results of the carried-out researches show (self-photography during free time, interviewing, method of observations) that 46% cases it's spent for sleep, in 37% for watching TV, Radio, in 21% for reading, in 17% for table games, in 8% for hobby, in 5% for physical training. 12.7+2.4% of ship's operators do morning exercises regularly, 7.4% of them spend the time for sport. In groups of rank and file (non-operators) these indices is 2-2.5 times higher.