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How to support SME's in Occupational Safety & Health?
21.09.2010 | News
Workers discussing
A revised legal framework in Germany redefines the requirements on company physicians and safety engineers consulting small and medium-sized enterprises. The new regulation unites many demands of modern safety management.

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:

  • Satisfies modern requirements concerning supervision
  • Assures equivalent requirements for equivalent companies
  • Gives consideration to the risk situation in each individual company
  • Is cohesive
  • Is implemented in equal measure by statutory accident insurance institutions in trade and industry and in the public sector

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).


Region: International
Type: News

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