According to German legislation and regulations of the Berufsgenossenschaften, every employer has to implement safety at work addressing company processes and procedures. By doing this, the employer can not only lower the risk that employees will be suffered from accidents at work or industrial diseases but it helps to ensure an undisturbed production process with a positive commercial impact.

The Safety at Work Act (Arbeitssicherheits-
gesetz - ASiG) and other regulations of the Berufsgenossenschaften require that companies have to appoint Health and Safety Managers to provide support and advice to the employer and management to implement company processes and procedures that address health and safety issues in accordance with all legal requirements. The Health and Safety Managers have the following tasks:
  1. To provide advice to the employer and other management staff responsible for health and safety at work.

2. Occupational safety checks before commissioning of industrial facilities, before usage of new technical equipment and introduction of new technological processes.

3. Observation of the company’s performance how health and safety requirements are addressed, identification of shortcomings, proposals to eliminate these shortcomings and support of the introduction of corresponding measures, investigation of accidents at work, information on health and safety at work issues, and encouragement of a safe behavi-
our at work.