Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

The article attempts to assess the state of occupational safety at workstations that use construction scaffolding
based on the proposed coefficients of the possibility of the occurrence of an occupational accident. The
coefficients were determined on the basis of data that was collected from post-accident control protocols concerning
occupational accidents involving construction scaffolding. The accidents took place in Poland in the
construction industry and occurred in five voivodeships in the years 2008–2017. In the conducted research,
the following parameters were analysed: age of the injured person, time in which the accident took place,
type of carried out works, type of scaffolding on which the accident occurred, and the height from which the
injured person fell. In order to assess the safety of work on scaffolding, partial coefficients of the possibility
of the occurrence of a dangerous situation, as well as a general coefficient of a hazard, were proposed. The
obtained results allowed a form in order to initially assess the safety of a construction scaffolding to be developed
using the proposed partial hazard coefficients. This form enables the preliminary assessment of the
probability of the occurrence of an accident on scaffolding to be conducted in relation to the population of
occupational accidents and the population of construction scaffoldings.