## 5 Discussion  
The study identified the main problems associated with the abuse and consumption of alcohol at work among employees in the construction industry, with particular emphasis on jobs related to work on scaffolding. When the authors of the article examined the susceptibility of individual age groups to alcohol consumption, the pattern of alcohol consumption by construction workers in Poland emerged. It was found that every second person consumes alcohol during the day, and the number of people consuming alcohol increases with age. Five limitations of our study should be mentioned. Firstly, it is worth noting that the accident documentation did not always contain all the necessary information about the content of ethyl alcohol in the blood of the injured person. Because the accident documentation (inspection reports) was prepared by inspectors of the National Labor Inspectorate, the authors were unable to interfere or supplement this archival data. It happened that such information was not provided/confirmed by the police officer or doctor admitting the injured person to the hospital ward. In the analyzed data, the cause related to alcohol consumption occurred in 38 injured people, which was 17.4% of all people injured in accidents, while the content of ethyl alcohol in the blood of the injured person was included only in 22 control protocols. Secondly, the content of ethyl alcohol in the blood was determined, assuming the reference unit. It should be remembered that the metabolism of alcohol involves individual differences [54]. The alcohol metabolism efficiency of different individuals will vary greatly [55]. Thirdly, the second source of the data analyzed was obtained on the basis of surveys. The proportion that took part in the survey was 38.2% of the target population. The data obtained in this study were direct responses from individuals. It may be assumed that the number of consumed \"standard\" alcoholic beverages might have been even higher than what the data revealed. No data were available regarding the comparisons of respondents and non-respondents. Since there was no officially recorded data, results obtained from the data collection method could be biased. Findings might have been subject to selection bias, although the data were collected with the greatest care. Fourth, since the second source of the data was collected via a survey and actively answered by working individuals, it did not contain data related to fatal accidents. Fifth, during the conducted research on the 120 examined construction scaffoldings, the authors did not collect any photographic documentation of some workers drinking an alcoholic beverage, for example, a can of beer. This was hard to do because the workers knew that the research team was conducting research and thus their behavior was close to \"perfect\". Moreover, while examining the scaffolding and conducting the survey, the authors did not register the situation that some workers were drinking alcoholic beverages. This may have been due to the fact that the construction workers consumed alcohol in hard-to-reach places on the construction site (in hiding). The observations carried out also revealed that there was an additional, serious problem that had not yet been analyzed, which is the wide availability of alcoholic beverages. Unfortunately, a very unfavorable factor that affects the ease of drinking alcohol immediately before work or during breaks from work is the large, easy, and widespread availability of alcohol. It is worth noting that both in Poland and in other European countries, alcohol can be bought in different volumes and in every discount store or hypermarket. The assortment is very wide and available in various volumes, starting with the smallest bottles of 50 mL of 40.0% vodka (the shape of the bottle enables it to fit in a pocket), through to bottles of 200 mL of 40.0% vodka (measuring 7.8 \(\times\) 17.0 cm with a flat shape that allows it to be stored, e.g., in a jacket pocket) and larger bottles (500 mL, 700 mL, and more).