Alumni can now apply for the 2023 German Road Safety Council (DVR) sponsorship award with their final theses. The prize is awarded to outstanding theses that deal with the topic of “road safety”. The prize is awarded jointly with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the accident insurance companies and employers’ liability insurance associations. Graduates of a master’s, bachelor’s, diploma or master’s degree course can submit their application via PDF.
Innovative, emotional and eventful: Rehacare, the world’s largest trade fair for rehabilitation and care, impressively presented the technological innovations for a self-determined life that the growth market of care and rehabilitation has to offer with many new products to touch and try out and numerous hands-on activities in the exhibition halls. Around 35,000 visitors came to find out more. For the first time, Rehacare 2022 focused on exoskeletons for occupational reintegration in the “People and Work” theme park. Exhibitors included a number of Basi members such as the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV).
Climbing a ladder is part of everyday working life for many people – not only on construction sites, but also in the home. However, ladders are responsible for almost half of all fall accidents on construction sites. Achim Fachbach, specialist for ladders and scaffolding in the building construction department of BG BAU, explains why this is the case, how ladders are used safely and what alternatives there are in an interview with Basi.
Triggered by a Tiktok video, the term “quiet quitting” is making a name for itself – this refers to “silent dismissal” or so-called service by the book. In an interview with Legal Tribune Online (LTO), Michael Fuhlrott explains when such behavior is still covered by employment law and when it is relevant to dismissal. Prof. Dr. Michael Fuhlrott is a specialist lawyer for employment law in Hamburg.
Measurements in a wide variety of work areas and the determination of exposure data – this has been the task of the MGU for 50 years. Behind this is the accident insurance institutions’ measurement system for determining hazards, which is a collaborative network consisting of the measurement services of the statutory accident insurance institutions and the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the DGUV (IFA). The work of the accident insurance institutions is supported by this exposure data, which serves as a basis for prevention and health protection.
An interview in the trade journal Personal Protection & Fashion (PPF) with Dr Michael Thierbach, a consultant at the office of the Commission for Occupational Health and Safety and Standardization (KAN), discusses what makes protective equipment virtually intelligent. Dr. Thierbach explains why the big breakthrough is still a long way off and why the topic of “standardization” is not an easy one.