The business benefit for your company

A work accident or occupational illness can have serious financial consequences – especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The resulting expenditure for maintaining smooth operations will normally cost your company more than appropriate precautions in terms of occupational safety and health would have cost. On the one hand the expenses involved at the wage costs for injured workers (wages plus statutory, collectively agreed and voluntary extra benefits). Other costs may be incurred for, among other things, material expenditures, machine downtimes and production outages or insurance costs.

By identifying hazards and loads/exposures at an early stage, you will be able to counteract any disturbances caused by times of worker absence which are due to work-related illness, work accidents or work incapacity.

Measures taken to ensure occupational safety and health do not necessarily have to involve additional costs. Precautions, such as the correct erection of machines, the use of existing protective equipment or the wearing of protective clothing or hearing protectors, are normally cost-neutral.

They "only" have to be implemented!