We have studied sanitary-hygienic characteristics of working conditions, charts with results of sanitaryepidemiologic examination performed in a zoogenous nidus, outpatient clinic cards and questionnaires filled in by 202 patients living in Omsk region and suffering from occupational brucellosis. The disease usually prevails among stock-breeders, veterinaries and workers employed at meat-processing enterprises. Our goal was to detect risks of occupational, production-induced and general pathology evolvement. Working conditions which all the examined people had to work in corresponded to hazardous (3.3) or even dangerous (4) category as per occurrence of contacts with infectious agents and parasites (biological risk). Apart from biological factor, a number of workers were under complex exposure to ammonia concentrations (higher than MPC), noise higher than MPL, vibration, cooling microclimate, uncomfortable lighting environment, labor process hardness and intensity. There were several factors causing epidemiologic risks as well. Disinfectants were absent or their quantity was not sufficient; industrial and amenity rooms were not well-organized; there was no central hot water supply or shower rooms, separate rooms for meals, specialized implements for removing abortus and stillborn fetuses and afterbirths, correctly organized burial grounds, or first aid kits. Hygienic health risks were caused by insufficient cleaning agents supply, absence of centralized protecting clothing laundering, and insufficient provision with personal protection means. Occupational health risks resulted from absence of preliminary medical examinations in standard recruitment procedures, irregularity and low quality of periodical medical examinations. Our qualitative assessment of behavioral health risks revealed that a lot of workers tended to have irresponsible medical and hygienic behavior, there were disorders in their work and rest regime (shift work with shifts rotation), nutrition, sleeping and waking. We also found out that the examined workers didn't pursue self-preserving lifestyle as they drank alcohol, smoked, underestimated the importance of being vaccinated against brucellosis and of having medical examinations, and didn't apply for medical aid in due time. We detected the third type of risk-genous behavior, "high risk-genous level, passive" in 28.22 % of our respondents. There have been positive changes in occupational hygiene and occupational pathology recently; they are determined by worldwide trend of a worker's health growing importance __________________________ Ó Ereniev S.I., Plotnikova O.V., Demchenko V.G., Rudakov N.V., 2017 Stepan I. Ereniev -Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor at Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Pathology Department

The authors conducted a hygienic assessment of working conditions of employees in LLC «Oil and gas equipment plant» on the basis of research of the Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Omsk region. The factors of the working environment and working conditions of workers having an impact on their health. Are studied. Hygiene-based preventive measures have been developed.

The effectiveness of higher education depends on many conditions and means. Continuous and comprehensive acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills is facilitated by the use of modern information and communication technologies during all years of study in a higher education institution. Due to the penetration of new information technologies in the field of education, it has become possible to qualitatively change the content, methods, tools and organizational forms of education. The article reveals ways to intensify the independent work of future teachers by means of information and communication technologies. After analyzing the data, it was found that students in the control and experimental groups have significant differences on such scales as: awareness, decision-making, planning and communication; there is also a positive trend on mnemonic, volitional and mental scales. According to the study, it is possible to say that future teachers of the experimental group are more knowledgeable and confident in choosing their profession, they more rationally and adequately assess the situation and more thoughtfully plan their future than students in the control group. Our study allows us to draw conclusions about the need for teachers in all disciplines to implement practice-oriented content, use active methods and technologies and abandon traditional teaching methods in the absence of practical significance of the content of educational material. It is necessary to use a rating assessment of students' work in the classroom; emotional form of presentation of the material; installation on the practical significance of the subject being studied; formation of professional competencies in students; creating situations of young people's awareness of the need for vocational education to succeed in life; to actualize persistence, independence, activity, initiative at performance of educational tasks.