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Innovations in Safety & Health: BG RCI, Germany, awards eighteen creative ideas
German insurer and prevention service provider BG RCI aims to cut down accidents at work, occupational diseases, and work-related health hazards by all suitable means. The vast majority of ideas submitted to BG RCI's award does not stem from think tanks, but directly from employees. The award seeks to discover optimization potentials, and make them available to a wide audience of entrepreneurs and employees both. Not only the classic technical solutions are in the focus: organizational, motivational, and training concepts play a major role in the pool of ideas.
The 2012 winners
German mining operator RAG Anthrazit Ibbenbüren GmbH assessed the risks and found a safer method for handling the approx. 400km of cables in its logistics center, preventing the risks of falling cable drums while storing the heavy loads in elevated positions.
Safe mounting of cable drums prevents severe accidents.
Solvay Fluor GmbH, Bad Wimpfen Germany received an award for developing a driver seat turnable by 90° and used on forklifts, thus reducing the operator's musculoskeletal strain over the whole work shift.
All concepts of 2012 as well as prior years are available online (in German) at http://www.bgrci-foerderpreis.de/.
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