DEKRA Award - Nominees 2015

WEFA Singen GmbH

Ergonomics at the workplace True to its company motto "We are WEFA", the WEFA group has anchored a suggestion scheme and occupational safety in its corporate values. Priority is given to ergonomics in the office and production areas. Accompanying measures such as providing support for back therapy classes underscore these efforts.

Voith GmbH

Occupational safety as success factor: win-win situation for people and the company Concept based on three pillars: 1) Occupational safety implemented top-down via the CEO; appropriate targets; part of managers' remuneration; 2) Efficient controlling and transparency; 3) Introduction of an occupational safety programme: internal audits, standardised accident reports, location-specific annual occupational safety programmes with monthly special topics.

Palatin Kongresshotel, Best Western Hotel

"Crime Scene: The Workplace – The Screenplay" Innovative management concepts / safety initiatives: This exercise is designed to review the processes employed by the fire brigade (9 fire engines and approx. 60 firemen and firewomen), the Best Western Plus hotel and the structural circumstances. A detailed screenplay was written describing the processes. Concrete improvement measures were then documented.

Merck KGaA

Safe workplace "Tank container" This project aimed to make the process of operating and filling a tank container safer for the employees responsible for these tasks. One measure included installing a special automatic anti-fall guard (folding guard rail on the tank container) that is erected automatically by means of gas pressure absorbers. An optical and acoustic overfill protection system warns employees when the maximum fill level has been reached.

Maschinenfabrik KEMPER GmbH & Co. KG

Priority to safety: goal "0 accidents, 0 hazards" (ideas management) Already winner of the John Deere Well Being Award 2014, ideas management as a safety initiative! Any employee can submit suggestions on how to improve safety (99 suggestions in 2014; > 200 in 2015). Around 75% of suggestions are implemented within three months. In addition, targeted campaigns and training sessions on core issues (e.g. safety, ergonomics, noise protection, health offerings) are carried out and near-accidents are reported as a means of preventing actual accidents.

Lobbe Industrieservice GmbH & Co KG

Automation: 100% for safety Industrial cleaning with pressurised water, i.e. this involves the use of a pistol. Increased risk to personnel! Solution: automated assistant devices. High-pressure water cleaning with remote-controlled, computer-aided assistant systems for work that has always been carried out by hand.

HochsauerlandWasser GmbH

Route maps and rescue points for emergencies Safe communication and guidance to accident/deployment locations (water collection facilities). The accident location is assigned a unique message number. The identification number is known to the rescue coordination centre; rescue personnel can quickly get to where they are needed. The accident location is communicated via a rescue number, with specification of the coordinates from different systems.

Audi AG

Route maps and rescue points for emergencies Safe communication and guidance to accident/deployment locations (water collection facilities). The accident location is assigned a unique message number. The identification number is known to the rescue coordination centre; rescue personnel can quickly get to where they are needed. The accident location is communicated via a rescue number, with specification of the coordinates from different systems.

AGC Glass Germany GmbH

Self-identification of hazards and accident risks in the workplace Helping employees to identify hazards themselves and adapt their behaviour to avoid injury and accidents.

WISAG Produktionsservice GmbH

Training programme for truck drivers in accordance with BrKFQG Training for employees and managers who are not permanently integrated in these processes. The state recognition of certain WPS premises as training locations and three in-house employees as instructors in accordance with the BrKFQG act. This allows the required training measures to be completed in-house and already-employed drivers to receive training even if they do not need to be trained in accordance with the BrKFQG act.

Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld (EvKB) Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Bethel

Risk sheet for assessing fitness to drive Identifying road users whose fitness to drive is limited. This has been a fixed component of consultations for a year now and is to be continued. Mobile deployment possible by doctors from all clinical care units.

EDEKA Handelsgesellschaft Südbayern mbH

Turning assistant for trucks Turning assistant for all trucks (new vehicles and the possibility of retrofitting). Road users in a driver's blind spot are warned by means of an acoustic signal and via a monitor. Operates by means of a camera and sensors on a speed-dependent basis every time the steering wheel is turned to the right.

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Road safety screening Road safety screening involves systematically linking all data relating to road traffic accidents with data relating to the road and its condition, traffic load and speed behaviour. This data is then prepared and made available on an online platform to all those involved in accident research and investigation. This not only allows accident commissions to prepare more effectively but also helps to reveal any accident patterns, thereby enabling the causes of accidents to be counteracted more quickly and in a more targeted manner.

Daimler AG

MobileKids – Working together for greater road safety Children are especially vulnerable road users. Between the ages of six and ten, they become independent road users, going to school or sports on their own. This is why it's important to make girls and boys aware, in an age-appropriate manner, of the potential risks and to teach them how to take more care when out and about. MobileKids provides parents and teachers with free training material, free of ads, and a planner for choosing the safest route to school. MobileKids gets in touch with all primary schools in Germany and every year gives prizes for the "fittest kids" as part of our schools competition.

An-Institut MISTEL der Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal/SPI Forschung GmbH

Peer project at driving schools Through the peer project at driving schools, young beginner drivers are told about the causes of drink-drive conflicts. They discuss viable strategies for preventing drink-driving. The peer project at driving schools has the following aims: targeted information about alcohol and drugs in road traffic; creating a positive attitude towards being a sober road user; personal ZERO limit for alcohol and drugs in road traffic; reducing the number of road traffic accidents involving young people driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

ABUS Security Center & Co KG

ABUS informs: protection against break-ins, information about risk situation and preventive measures Preventive protection measures via: press relations, regular TV programmes, radio features, printed and online articles. Thanks to ongoing press relations, ABUS reaches several millions of people and provides information about how people can protect themselves against break-ins, fire, water and in emergencies.