A concept for the supervision of companies with over ten employees by company physicians and OSH professionals (standard supervision) was to be developed which, among other aspects:
The reform of supervision by company physicians and OSH professionals has, for the firsttime in the history of the German statutory accident insurance system, merged all regulationsfor companies in trade and industry and public-sector bodies, and defines arrangements forsupervision of companies and insured individuals which are uniform across all sectors.
A paper describing the full background and outcome is available online, published by the German Statutory Accident Insurance (PDF).