Abstract: The study was sponsored by the Russian President's grant for state support of young Russian scientists and PhDs (MK-7500.2016.6). Industrial safety depends, first of all, on the employee himself or herself, not only his or her attitude to labor protection but also personal traits, feelings and efficiency of psychological self-regulation. The authors believe that locus control is one of the most important personal markers of the personnel psychological safety as a number of researchers (Eysenck, Emelianov, Kostrov, Kotik, Kulagin, Tsgoev, etc.) underline the relationship between them. The article is devoted to the study of the control locus as a personal marker of the psychological safety for oil and gas employees in the Arctic. To achieve this goal, a study was carried out at the oil and gas producing industry with a shift work organization in the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (the duration of the rotation arrival is 30 days). The study involved 70 workers aged 24 to 60 years (the mean age is 38.7 ± 1.3). The work experience of the shifted method varies from 0.5 to 31 years (9.53 ± 1.2). Methods of research are studying documentation, monitoring the work process, questioning, psychophysiological and psychological testing, statistical methods of data analysis. Statistical methods of analysis are descriptive statistics; and multivariate variance analysis. Statistical processing of data was carried out using the statistical package IBM SPSS Statistics (licensing agreement No. Z125-3301-14 (SAO named after Lomonosov)). The most important parameters of the control locus, which have a statistically significant relationship with most components of the psychological safety of oil and gas workers in the Arctic, are internality in health and disease, in interpersonal and family relationships, and in the field of failures. It has been revealed that in order to provide psychological safety for oil and gas specialists in shift work organization in Arctic conditions, it is necessary to have a moderate level of externality in the field of failures, and there is a moderate internal locus of control in the field of health and illness, family and interpersonal relations.

Abstract: Research and socio-economic conditions allow to determine the actual problem which is a contradiction between the high demand on the labor market within the framework of working professions and undeveloped motivation of graduates for working in their specialty. These contradictions can be resolved by examining the professional orientation of students during their education process based on the introduction of modern psychological technologies. Thus, the purpose of the research was to study a professional orientation development of auto mechanics during their college years. The study was conducted from September 2015 to May 2016 and involved 32 Polytechnical College students aged from 16 to 18 years (the average age is 17.09 ± 0.211). For the purposes of the teaching experiment all the respondents were divided into two groups, experimental group that involved the first-year students majoring in automechanics and the control group consisting of the first-year students studying welding. The authors have also prepared a 20-academic hour program of professional orientation development (10 lessons, each lasting for 2 academic hours). The lessons were given from March to April 2016. The program proved to be efficient. The authors have recorded the statistically important increase in the number of the experimental group's students with the high level of developed professional orientation after the lessons compared to the control group to which the  lessons were not given. The program prepared by the authors is more oriented at the development of such components of professional orientation as the motivation, needs, values and the level of reflection. 

Abstract: The study sponsored by the Russian President's grant for state support of young Russian scientists - PhD (MK-7500.2016.6). The article is devoted to the justification of a model of psychological safety of oil and gas shift workers in the Arctic. Industrial safety in the first place depends on the employee, not only on his attitude to the observance of health and safety requirements but also on one's personal traits, his subjective experience and effectiveness of his psychological self-regulation. Thus, the analysis of the employee safe behavior should involve not only industrial and working conditions but also characteristics of one's psychological safety as a potential opportunity to avoid production errors. The study conducted on the oil and gas industry with a shift labour organization in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (shift duration is 30 days). The study involved 70 people aged from 24 to 60 years (the average age is 38.7 ± 1.3). Research methods included: analysis of documentation, monitoring the work process, questionnaires, psycho-physiological and psychological testing, and statistical methods of data analysis. The study has clarified the concept of psychological safety as a mental state of control over a range of external and internal factors of the ergatic system triggering internal personality means to be professionally efficient at the psychophysiological and psychological levels. The authors introduce  and empirically support the model of psychological safety that is comprised of the following components: psychophysiological level of the functional status (reduced / optimal); psychological level of the functional state (emergency / economical); the image of an labour object (low undifferentiated risk assessment / highly differentiated risk assessment); the image of a labour subject (highly undifferentiated / moderately differentiated self-assessment); the image of the subject-object and subject-subject relations (neutral / negative / positive).