This article presents data on the prevalence of hearing impairment among the workers engaged in the main means of transportation(air and railway transport). They show that the relative frequency of occupational loss of hearing in the cockpit members of commercial aviation amounts to one third of all cases of analogous diseases in this country. The main professional groups of transport works suffering from hearing impairment are constituted by the representatives of the so-called elite specialities, such as flying crew personnel, locomotive engineers, and their assistants. This fact constitutes an important aspect (not only of medical but also of socio-economic significance) of the problem under consideration. The high prevalence of professional hearing impairment among the transport workers is attributable to the high noise level in the cabins of locomotives and aircraft cockpits as well as to the inadequate expert and diagnostic work or imperfection of the regulatory documentation.
Проблема хронической сенсоневральной тугоухости (ХСНТ) у лиц летного состава (ЛС) гражданской авиации (ГА) в России на сегодняшний день чрезвычайно актуальна. Прежде всего это связано с тем, что в последнее время в структуре этиологии хронической патологии слухового аппарата у работников ГА в России преобладает профессиональная ХСНТ. По данным ФБУЗ «Федеральный центр гигиены и эпидемиологии» Федеральной службы Роспотребнадзора, показатели этого заболевания в последние годы составляют основную долю ежегодно регистрируемой ХСНТ в России: в 2011 г.-26,5%, в 2012 г.-31,0%, в 2013 г.-27,0%, в 2014 г.-28,3% [1]. Проблема ХСНТ у пилотов ГА возникла в нашей стране несколько десятилетий назад в силу ряда причин.
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