  Effective methods of preventing falls significantly improve the quality of
life of the Elderly. Nowadays, people focus mainly on the proper provision of
the apartment with handrails and fall detection systems once they have
occurred. The article presents a~system of active detection and classification
of the risk of falls in the home space using a~service robot equipped with
a~vision sensor. Hazard classification allows for effective performance of
tasks assigned to the robot while maintaining a~high level of user safety.
