This paper presents some chosen results of the research conducted in the region of Łódź at the end of 2009 and at the beginning of 2010 which referred to the issues connected with the assessment of vocational risk as the main aspect of accident prevention and health prophylaxis. The analysis was carried out in the division into three groups of respondents: small enterprises, medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises. In this paper its authors are trying to answer a question what the level of abnormalities in all 200 examined enterprises is and what this level is in each of the groups separately

This paper presents a part of the results of the research carried out by its authors in the framework of a research project “Analysis and evaluation of the level of adjustment of entrepreneurs and OSH specialists from the region of Łódź to the changes in legal provisions and in market needs”. In the framework of the project 200 OSH specialists professionally active in the region of Łódź were interviewed. The evaluation of the level of knowledge of OSH specialists and the analysis whether or not there are any differences in it depending on the level on which they obtained their vocational qualifications, on a secondary or on a tertiary level, was the main aim of this analysis