[Problems in improvement of work conditions in railroad transport]. / Problemy uluchsheniia uslovii truda na podvizhnom sostave i putevoi tekhnike.

Within a short period of time the temperature conditions have been improved at working places of locomotive drivers and their assistants, a new switchboard for locomotives developed, noise and vibration in cabins were reduced, etc. Hygienic problems associated with improvement of locomotives are supervised by the Ministry of Communications and by special commissions.

[Sanitary-hygienic regulations of the utilization of asbestos production waste in railway facilities]. / Sanitarno-gigienicheskaia reglamentatsiia ispol'zovaniia otkhodov asbestovogo proizvodstva v putevom khoziaistve.

The hazards of utilizing the asbestos production wastes in railway construction are analyzed. An increased risk of cancer development was observed only in groups exposed to asbestos in concentrations surpassing the maximal permissible level, as shown by mortality records. The authors come to a conclusion that the use of asbestos waste is permissible only on condition of strict adherence to sanitary regulations.

[Reasons for privileges for hard and hazardous work conditions in railway transport]. / Voprosy obosnovaniia l'got za tiazhelye i vrednye usloviia truda dlia professii zheleznodorozhnogo transporta.

Many railway occupations have special work conditions which considerably depend on peculiarities of work and therefore could not undergo hygienic regulation. The article gives examples of such occupations connected mostly with personal risk in railway traffic, marked work hardness, etc. Reasonable privileges and compensations are established for those occupations.