Choosing the professionally important qualities (PIQ) is an essential moment of personnel selection and assessment of reliability of their professional activity. The use of methods of analytical job specification and expert estimations allowed to define the list of PIQs of personnel admitted to work with PBA of I-II groups.

The aim of the study is to assess how successfully the trainees obtain skills of post mortem examination of laboratory animals, with strict observance of the rules of safe work with pathogenic biological agents of I-II groups, during their training at professional retraining courses. Individual continuous chronometry is offered as the assessment method. The obtained results can be used for planning of practical training, drafting the time-table, standardization of work of instructors.