The aim of my thesis is to create alternative solutions, suitable for self-management, to provide the personal protective equipment members of fire brigade units operating in volunteer fire brigades.In the first part of the thesis I elaborated the legislation on fire protection in the Slovak Republic and in the Czech Republic. Then I mind out to the tasks, instrumentation and equipment of voluntary fire brigade units in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In the fourth part there is the categorization of fire units in the SR, their tasks according to classification into individual categories. The main topic of the thesis was to collect individual personal protective equipment and summarize them in tables by manufacturer, product type, price and suitability for each category. This information helps the founder, when purchasing personal protective equipment, to orientate in the quality and price of individual products. The benefit of this thesis is to help individual volunteer fire brigades of the village in selecting personal protective equipment in the case of professional growth and therefore to save funds by individual volunteer fire brigades.