Your experts for workplace safety and health protection in Germany.
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Safe and compliant through everyday work.
Your experts for workplace safety and health protection in Germany.
Take action before something happens!
Safe and compliant through everyday work.
Workplace safety measures minimizes the risks to the well-being of all employees and ensures the continued existence of your company. We ensure that you and your colleagues can get through your everyday working life in a healthy and legally compliant manner.
To fulfill this essential task, you should have a suitable occupational safety management (OSHM) system in place that guarantees maximum workplace safety for you and your employees. We support you in creating new OSHM systems or help you optimize your existing systems. Trust our expertise when it comes to occupational safety consulting in Germany.
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Every 39 seconds, a reportable workplace accident occurs in German businesses – 510 colleagues lost their lives in such incidents in 2021 (Statista).
Because it concerns the health of your employees and the continuity of your business!
§ 3 Employer’s Basic Obligations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (ArbSchG)
(1) The employer is obligated to take the necessary occupational safety and health measures, taking into account the circumstances that affect the safety and health of employees at work. He must review the measures for their effectiveness and adapt them to changing circumstances if necessary. In doing so, he must strive to improve the safety and health protection of employees.
This applies to all companies, from solo entrepreneurs to corporations. Thus, workplace safety is not just a “nice to have” function in your company but a strict legal obligation. Anyone who has ever been involved in a workplace accident investigation knows what we are talking about here.
Legal notice: The information provided on this page does not constitute legal advice or information in the sense of legal counsel.
What legal foundations apply to your company’s occupational safety and health in Germany? The classic answer: It depends…!
In addition to the actual law-making institutions, there are numerous other parties with their own regulatory provisions and agreements that determine the nature and scope of your individual company workplace safety regulations.
The involved parties include the legislature, your respective employers’ liability insurance associations, and, of course, your business partners in terms of statutory workplace co-determination. Thus, each industry and business sector has its own set of occupational safety and health regulations, which must be clarified before commencing business activities. Furthermore, there are differences in the design of your legally compliant occupational safety and health based on the nature and size of your company.
Every effective occupational safety and health management starts with the creation of a legal register and an inventory of applicable standards before commencing any business activity! Here’s an overview of the most important regulations:
Other laws that include the topic of occupational health and safety but focus on the protection of other legal interests, such as the Maternity Protection Act (MuSchG).
In addition, there are agreements between collective bargaining partners and employers, traditional company agreements, as well as the autonomous law of the accident insurance carriers.
The list is just a small excerpt of the existing legal requirements that need to be considered. We are happy to assist you with the establishment and maintenance of your individual legal register.
It’s always a good idea to involve a specialist lawyer in labor law in the establishment and maintenance of an effective occupational safety program. Occupational safety represents one of the greatest operational risks in Germany, and its significance is continuously increasing.
However, if you believe that fulfilling your obligations ends there, unfortunately, you are mistaken.
Duties and responsibilities related to occupational safety cannot be fully delegated!
Tasks and duties in occupational safety can actively be delegated to individuals within your organization—examples include the occupational safety management officer—or passively transferred through the organizational structure and the so-called line responsibility. External individuals can also perform functions in occupational safety, such as external company doctors or fire protection officers. This naturally includes comprehensive legal advice from your lawyer.
The bad news: You remain responsible for supervising and controlling occupational safety, especially the duty to organize and select. These duties are not legally transferable and pose a continued risk to your business and yourself.
Implemented occupational safety goes far beyond mere compliance. While an approach solely focused on compliance may meet legal requirements, it fails to establish credibility and seriousness in the implemented safety measures, thus lacking in gaining acceptance of the occupational safety management systems across the entire workforce. Occupational safety becomes a bureaucratic formality rather than – as required – an integral part of your value structure and corporate culture.
Only those who live occupational safety will reap its benefits. Rarely has this phrase been as true as it is here.
Occupational safety must be ingrained in the consciousness of all involved parties to function effectively. Modern occupational safety management systems (OSHM) respect this realization and go far beyond formal requirements such as maintaining accident logs or having fire safety information in their scope and impact.
Fact: German courts generally place more emphasis on the effort and seriousness of implementing occupational safety measures within a company, rather than on the flawless formal implementation of legal requirements.
Workplce safety begins before initiating any business activities. In doubt, it’s better to start it late than never!
Even though the content and scope of occupational safety in your company are defined by your industry affiliation and business size, there are still some minimum requirements that every company must meet – from the solo entrepreneur to the large corporation.
We are happy to inform you about your individual minimum requirements in a free initial consultation. Just give us a call!
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Only when everyone in the company works together can a safe and healthy work environment be created, effectively preventing accidents and occupational diseases.
We comprehensively support you in designing and implementing a modern occupational health and safety management system tailored to the specific needs of your company, actively involving your employees in the occupational health and safety process.
Our consulting portfolio supports you from planning to implementation.
Our occupational safety consulting services range from planning and implementing new systems to hands-on tasks such as maintaining, monitoring, and continuously improving existing systems. We offer our services modularly, so you only pay for what you actually need.
Whether it’s building new occupational safety management systems or optimizing and maintaining existing ones – Together, we’ll take the path to safe and healthy work in four steps.
In our free initial consultation, you have the opportunity to get an impression of us and our capabilities – after all, the chemistry between all parties involved should be right in the end.
After capturing the specific task description, we will provide you with a tailored offer for professional organization of your company’s occupational safety, including timeframe, required resources, costs, and of course, the possibility of state or institutional funding for the planned measures in Germany.
The planning describes the condition that should be achieved through the commissioned measures. It includes specific acceptance criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs) that will be used for later evaluation of success.
The status quo analysis aims to capture all existing information and data needed for the implementation of the respective task, such as the individual legal foundations of occupational safety in the respective company, the current status with the statutory accident insurers, conducted risk assessments, preventive measures including documentation, and much more.
Following this, a target/actual comparison and the concrete planning of the measures to be implemented are carried out.
The operational phase includes all necessary activities and procurements for implementing the planned measures. These activities often occur within the framework of an agile or traditional project.
This phase ends once the acceptance criteria are met and performance measurement becomes possible. The focus is on quickly achieving a state of occupational safety and legal compliance in your company’s occupational safety practices.
The final phase involves the introduction, review, and maintenance of the implemented measures. This includes potential ongoing services such as necessary documentation and training, or maintaining an emergency hotline, continuous monitoring of success based on established metrics, and the permanent application of the principles and structures of continuous improvement.
We generally recommend the consistent application of appropriate change management measures to ensure the long-term sustainability of achieved successes by creating broad acceptance and making occupational safety a matter of course in all parts of the company.
Whether it’s building new occupational safety management systems or optimizing and maintaining existing ones – Together, we’ll take the path to safe and healthy work in four steps.
In our free initial consultation, you have the opportunity to get an impression of us and our capabilities – after all, the chemistry between all parties involved should be right in the end.
After capturing the specific task description, we will provide you with a tailored offer for professional organization of your company’s occupational safety, including timeframe, required resources, costs, and of course, the possibility of state or institutional funding for the planned measures in Germany.
The planning describes the condition that should be achieved through the commissioned measures. It includes specific acceptance criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs) that will be used for later evaluation of success.
The status quo analysis aims to capture all existing information and data needed for the implementation of the respective task, such as the individual legal foundations of occupational safety in the respective company, the current status with the statutory accident insurers, conducted risk assessments, preventive measures including documentation, and much more.
Following this, a target/actual comparison and the concrete planning of the measures to be implemented are carried out.
The operational phase includes all necessary activities and procurements for implementing the planned measures. These activities often occur within the framework of an agile or traditional project.
This phase ends once the acceptance criteria are met and performance measurement becomes possible. The focus is on quickly achieving a state of occupational safety and legal compliance in your company’s occupational safety practices.
The final phase involves the introduction, review, and maintenance of the implemented measures. This includes potential ongoing services such as necessary documentation and training, or maintaining an emergency hotline, continuous monitoring of success based on established metrics, and the permanent application of the principles and structures of continuous improvement.
We generally recommend the consistent application of appropriate change management measures to ensure the long-term sustainability of achieved successes by creating broad acceptance and making occupational safety a matter of course in all parts of the company.
Up to 80% of our work safety consulting costs are eligible for government funding for German-based companies. Our doors are open to you!
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We respect every individual and value your corporate culture. Without exception! A respectful exchange of ideas and opinions promotes collaboration and, in turn, the achievement of your goals.
We operate independently in our consulting services, ensuring freedom from external influences. This includes avoiding sales partnerships or similar cooperation models with manufacturers or providers in the relevant fields.
Our analyses and recommendations are free from personal interests. We rely on a professional and neutral perspective, based on data and facts. We act in the best interest of our clients.
We communicate clearly, openly, and transparently. Our consulting services are limited to areas covered by our expertise. Discretion and care in handling your data are our top priorities.
We respect every individual and value your corporate culture. Without exception! A respectful exchange of ideas and opinions promotes collaboration and, in turn, the achievement of your goals.
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