Combined approach to the assessment of new forms of work organization at Kuzbass coal mines

: Physiological-hygienic assessment has been made of the conditions of labour, the degree of difficulty, tension of labour, fatigue of miners during the work shift, indices of health status and sociopsychological climate under the new conditions of the team form of labour organization of miners. It has been found out, that transition to the contract and piece-rate and premium system of labour organization lead to higher labour productivity, longer usage of mining equipment, stability of the collective. However, alongside with this, labour conditions are getting worse, the work becomes more difficult and tense, which leads to more rapid development of fatigue of miners during the work shift, to chronic morbidity. Prophylaxis should be aimed at rationalization of regimes of labour and rest, normalization of the psychological climate in brigades, strengthening of the treatment-prophylaxis work.