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The new Hazardous Substances Ordinance introduces important changes to protect employees who work with carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic substances. The focus is on adapted regulations on asbestos and a binding risk concept. In future, all companies that work with carcinogenic hazardous substances must be guided by a “traffic light principle” for risk assessment. This concept, which was already anchored in the Technical Rule for Hazardous Substances 910 (TRGS 910), is now legally binding.
According to recent reports by the BG BAU, asbestos is still one of the most common causes of illness and death in connection with work-related illnesses. The figures have even risen steadily in recent years. According to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS), wherever old buildings are involved, factors such as climate change or the changing demographic structure of our society are causing pressure to modernize, which inevitably brings many occupational groups into direct or indirect contact with this substance.