Basi im Dialog is an informal series of events organized by the Federal Working Group for Safety and Health at Work, which was first established in 2022.
Here, experts meet to discuss the topic of the event and provide valuable tips and advice on safety and health at work in a compact, 45-minute online format. Basi members in particular have the opportunity to present their aspects of occupational safety and health more prominently here.
How do occupational health and safety and standardization actively complement each other in their objectives? What role do standards play in occupational health and safety? Basi Managing Director Dr Christian Felten discussed these and many other aspects with the experts Dr Bärbel Wernicke, Head of the “Life and Environment” department at the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), and Angela Janowitz, Managing Director of the Commission for Occupational Health and Safety and Standardization (KAN). DIN (German Institute for Standardization) is the independent platform for standardization in Germany and worldwide, while KAN supports the OSH experts in the standardization committees.
Guest: Prof. Dr. Lars Adolph, Scientific Director “Products and Work Systems” and AI Coordinator at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA). He exchanged views with Dr. Christian Felten, Managing Director of the Federal Working Group for Safety and Health at Work (Basi), primarily on the opportunities opened up by the use of artificial intelligence in occupational safety.
Avoiding work intensification, mastering digitalization and dealing with the consequences of climate change and decarbonization – these are just some of the many challenges that occupational safety will face in the future. The hybrid event “Basi in dialog with the DGUV and EU-OSHA” in Berlin focused on how risks can be scientifically identified and what can already be done in companies to counter them.
Systematic, time-optimized work planning, for example in industry, can ensure greater safety and health at work – the participants at the successful event “Die Basi im Dialog” agreed on this.
Sustainable companies – well positioned in occupational health and safety
Companies that focus on sustainable occupational health and safety are well positioned – also economically. The discussion partners at the first edition of the online format “Die Basi im Dialog” agreed on this. Around 200 participants put many questions to Dr Christian Felten, Managing Director of Basi, the Federal Working Group for Safety and Health at Work, and his guest Sebastian Bartels, Senior Vice President and Head of Global Sustainability Services at the global expert organization DEKRA.