The topic of master's thesis is the assessment of risks in private care. The first part of the paper deals with the legal regulation related to the occupational safety at work in private protection companies and the legal way of carrying out the risk assessment itself. Along with the introduction to the private protection jobs, ways of doing business today in this sector and showing the bad sides of such business this paper will explaine risks, identification of the dangers, hazards and efforts that may arise when doing this type of business. In addition to the present dangers that may arise, there are additional factors that may affect the quality of the employee's work and are related to the specific working conditions this type of job demands. In private security most dangers and risks occur due to the way the work is organized which is not organized to benefit the worker and his private life. Very often the jobs are done independently without the presence of other colleagues and there is a "lonely work" side effect. The indispensable danger that is present in any private security work is the risk of physical assault. In private care activities, it is necessary to have knowledge of how to protect yourself or your employees from dangers recognized by the risk assessment in the workplace and be able to act after a certain hazard has resulted in work injury or in some other way. The employer should take care of their employees and implement work safety to ensure greater quality of work, which could stop negative employment trends in the private protection sector.