TESTING OF THE “CROSSROAD” METHODOLOGY FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF RELIABILITY AND BEHAVIOR STRATEGIES IN THE EMERGENCY SITUATION OF OPERATOR PROFILE SPECIALISTS

Objective. To test the method “Crossroads” to assess the reliability of the operator and determine his strategy of behavior in an emergency. Materials and methods. The study involved 90 military personnel and 13 civilian personnel aged 18 to 30 years. The subjects performed two stages of complex visual-motor reactions. The first one was performed “according to the established algorithm”, and the number of errors, the number and time of delays before the necessary button presses were estimated. At the second stage, an emergency situation was simulated - an “unexpected program failure”, while the presence or absence of an attempt to make decisions during a failure and the time required to make a decision after a program failure were recorded. Results. At the first stage, 7 out of 60 contract servicemen reported response errors. Only three of the 30 conscripts did not make a single mistake at the first stage. Of the 13 civilian personnel, only one went through the first stage unmistakably. At the second stage, an attempt to take any action in an emergency was recorded in 12 people out of 30 conscripts and in 4 out of 13 civilian staff. Conclusion. It has been established that the “Crossroads” technique makes it possible to differentiate the subjects depending on the reliability of the simulated operator activity. Introduction to the test execution procedure of the “program malfunction” situation allows you to identify people with constructive and non-constructive strategies for behavior in an emergency situation (bibliography: 4 refs).

civilian personnel, emergency situation, military personnel, operator activities, operator reliability, strategy activities