Occupational safety specialist for offices in Stuttgart and Baden-Württemberg

Safety Club provides the external occupational safety specialist for office businesses in Stuttgart and Baden-Württemberg: one contract, a specialist from the network on site and audit-proof documentation in the client portal.

• Stuttgart
• Mannheim
• Karlsruhe
• Freiburg
• Heidelberg
• Heilbronn
• Ulm
• Pforzheim
• Reutlingen
• Esslingen
• and more

Who supervises occupational safety in Baden-Württemberg

For an office, the responsible body is usually the trade supervisory authority of the urban or rural district where it is located. In urban districts that is the city administration, in rural districts the district office (Landratsamt). The table shows the bodies for the larger cities, grouped by administrative region.

At the VBG, two cities in the table are assigned differently from the rest, because assignment follows the postcode: Mannheim belongs to the Mainz district office and Heilbronn to the Würzburg district office. A business with offices in several districts deals with several trade supervisory authorities. Each office answers to the authority of the district it is in.

Engineering and planning offices in Baden-Württemberg

In offices that work with CAD and large-format plans, the walkthrough pays particular attention to lighting and visual tasks. Anyone switching between two or three monitors and a plan on the desk needs glare-free light for both. Reflections on screens and glossy paper often only become apparent once you sit at the desk yourself, so the walkthrough includes a look from the seated position.

Plotters and large-format printers often stand in the middle of the office floor. Waste heat, noise and ventilation all matter when deciding where they go. What applies to toner and ink is covered in Hazardous substances in the office.

For many planners, site meetings on construction sites and in factory halls are part of everyday work. These visits need their own safety training and suitable protective equipment, because the office risk assessment does not cover them.

Mid-sized firms and client-site consulting in the south-west

Many mid-sized companies in the state have their administration on the plant site. Purchasing, sales and accounts then need their own risk assessment alongside the one for production, because the hazards differ. Office staff who regularly go into the production hall or warehouse also receive training on the rules that apply there.

For management consultancies it is the other way round. Their staff often spend weeks on a client's premises, but their own employer remains responsible for their safety. Agree with the client who briefs your people on escape routes, alarms and first aid on site, and put it in writing.

In smaller consultancies and offices, management can also organise the support itself. Up to 50 employees, the Unternehmermodell is a permitted alternative. It requires the business owner to attend the training sessions in person. How the support models compare is set out in 5 safety support models compared.

Related

• Occupational safety for engineering and planning offices: Multiple screens, plotters and appointments away from the office.
• Occupational safety for management consulting: Work at client sites, travel and project peaks.
• Occupational safety for architecture firms: Plan work on screen and visits to the building site.
• Unternehmermodell under DGUV Regulation 2: When management can organise the support itself.
• Setting up a screen workstation correctly: Monitor position, viewing distance and lighting at the desk.

Legal basis

• DGUV Regulation 2 (occupational physicians and safety specialists)

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