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Basically you as the employer are responsible for ensuring a qualitatively impeccable risk assessment. Contracting the risk assessment out to an external organisation is a purely private-law matter and in principle anyone can be engaged. In your own interest, however, you should only award consulting contracts to qualified persons.
On the following pages we give the names of companies who offer services related to this topic and who can assist you in the implementation of the risk assessment. Please note that this list is not necessarily exhaustive and that we accept no responsibility for quality, suitability, capacity etc.
The suppliers are normally arranged in the order of their postcodes. This order does not imply and value judgement.
Occupational safety specialists
The Gesellschaft für Qualität im Arbeitsschutz (GQA - Society for Quality in Occupational Health Care) is an association of specialists for occupational safety and health and it implements a voluntary quality assurance scheme. The members of this association are certified to verify that they meet the quality conditions to enable them to carry out their tasks under section 3 of the Occupational Safety Act.
The contact addresses of the approved service providers can be found here arranged according to postcode:
Search for specialists for occupational safety and health
Company doctors
The Gesellschaft zur Qualitätssicherung in der betrieblichen Betreuung (GQB - Society for Quality Assurance in Occupational Health) is an association of company doctors and it implements a voluntary quality assurance scheme. The members of this association are certified to verify that they meet the quality conditions to enable them to carry out their tasks under section 6 of the Occupational Safety Act.
Search for approved company doctors
Note:
On 24 December 2008 the Ordinance on Occupational Health Care (ArbMedVV) came into force. The dual provisions on occupational health care previously contained in governmental law and in the accident prevention regulations were amalgamated in the ArbMedVV. Article 7 of the Ordinance regulates the requirements to be met by the physicians who may be delegated to perform preventive occupational medical examinations under ArbMedVV.
The new Ordinance creates the statutory basis for a sustainable health care in companies. As a result of this Ordinance, any contrary provisions in BGV A4 – including the empowerment regulations – may no longer be applied.
Expert for work-related accidents and illnesses
We want to assist you in doing everything to prevent work-related accidents and illnesses. But time and again accidents happen in connection with work. What must you do if an accident occurs in your company? You can get support, among other things, from experts for work-related accidents.
Qualified medical expert reports are a precondition for a proper decision by the accident insurance institutions on compensation for work-related accidents and illnesses.
The state associations of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) place at your disposal databases with the names of experts for work-related accidents and illnesses.
Search for experts in the database of the state associations of the DGUV
To obtain further information on the experts' database you can contact the state association responsible in your region.
Well-directed reintegration
The Internet application www.jobbg.de of the German Social Insurance (DGUV) helps rehabilitation after an occupational disease or an accident quickly find a new job.
Contemporaneous www.jobbg.de informs the employer on possible financial assistance, rehabilitation assistance or wage subsidies.
Contacts are available in the national associations of the DGUV in Dusseldorf, Mainz, Heidelberg, Hanover, Berlin and Munich.
Hazardous substances management
If you need help with hazardous substances management, consulting companies may be able to assist. In the list of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) you will find addresses of companies which offer such services.
Determination of physico-chemical properties
If you need help with the determination of physico-chemical properties in accordance with section 9 of the safety data sheet, test laboratories may be able to assist. In the list of the BAuA you will find addresses of companies which offer such services.
Test laboratories for determining physico-chemical properties
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