摘要：The paper presents an analysis of the factors harmful to the chainsaw operator. It analyses the fundamental group of harmful factors such as physical, chemical, biological and psychophysical ones. Among the dangerous factors occurring for the chainsaw operator that directly affect the post and occupy an important place are primarily physical factors: noise, vibration, microclimate, lighting, dust and mechanical hazards. Very hazard are accidents at work. Accidents at work are of the economic importance both for the company, the victim, as well as for society. Incurring such costs represents a significant loss in relation to GDP both in Poland and also in highly developed countries of the European Union. At present the employment in the State Forests is only 25.5 thousand people, and the number of employees in this department of the national economy is gradually decreasing. At the beginning of the 1990s the number of employees fluctuated between 100 thousand. [http://www.wprost.pl (accessed 05.17.2014)] Most of the employees of the State Forests are employed as manual and maintenance workers.
关键词：harmful factors; Professional Risk Assessment; petrol chainsaw
