[Improving the system of preventing vibration and noise-induced pathology]

Due to the long-term study of various machines under industrial and test conditions it became possible to determine the specific role of each chain of the man-machine system in the intensification of vibroacoustic effect on a worker and to develop a system of medical, technical and organizational preventive measures. Introduction of a set of such measures at one of the plants helped to reduce vibration disease rates by dozens of times. In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.