[Hygienic and physiological aspects of evaluation of new types of protective clothing for railroad workers].

In the Soviet rail-road transport system, timely provision of individual protective devices was authorized by a special instruction of the Rail-Roads Transport Ministry. New materials and overalls are being introduced to adapt the individual safety measures to new labour conditions and the new chemical substances used in the rail-road transport system. Hygienic, physiological and laboratory techniques are widely used to assess the properties of new devices. The evaluating techniques and approaches used and improved in the transport industry can be applied to in other branches.