Psychology of work safety has been recently worked out and introduced into the curriculum in Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. The following topics are included into the content of the course: place of the psychology of safe work in the system of issues of work safety; psychological reliability of an operator (industrial psychological states, unusual psychological states, fatigue) in the man-machine system; etc. It is emphasized in the course that instruction in every profession must be combined with the study of psychological fundamentals, of safe work.