Abstract
Abstract Profession of miners associated with a certain degree of risk. But in industrial psychology often considered only the risk of injury (extra risk), while there is the need to allocate the risk of a different nature. This is a health risk, which is the result of bad working conditions (the risk of delayed results). We investigated the motivation of choice of professions related health risk. The study involved two representatives of professions related to risk – 52 miners and 47 fire-rescue workers. The main result - subjective assessments of miner profession are one of the most dangerous. Firefighters work from a subjective point of view is not considered as dangerous. Miners realized double risk of their profession - extra risk and risk of delayed results. Miners consider the professional risk unreasonable, but against the social risk - the risk of unemployment, the presence of work, related risk, is understood as the value.