Nominees 2019

Daimler AG

The new Active Brake Assist 5 - The automated emergency braking in the new ACTROS. Cooperation between radar and camera system. This has improved the reaction to persons in a speed range of up to 50 km/h. The assistant can react to persons with full braking within the system limits. If it detects a danger, the driver is informed of this by a three-level warning system. If it is not activated, a visual and an audible warning will be issued. Thereafter, partial braking is initiated. If the driver still does not react, the system performs full braking, and at a speed of less than 50 km/h, activates the hazard lights to warn the following traffic. Finally, a new electronic emergency brake is automatically engaged when the vehicle comes to a stop.

Deutscher Verkehrssicherheitsrat (DVR)

Safe in my region. The initiative consists of two classroom seminars and a web-based self-learning phase. Regional accident clusters are recorded by 360-degree videos, possible accident sequences in animated video sequences are reconstructed and made available on the website. Thus, a sensitization of the road users for the specific hazard on the known ways.

Annette Eickelmann

Vision training makes sense. An all-day seminar for bus and truck drivers, based on the vision training concept with special reference to the eye test for professional drivers. Effective short exercises that are easy to integrate into everyday life are learned in order to increase awareness and attention, and thus to prevent the risks of avoidable accidents in traffic.

Fraunhofer Institut für Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme

Accident Prevention Program Fraunhofer IVI Accident Prevention The goal is to close the gap in road safety education in the risk group of 12- to 16-year-olds, to impart technical knowledge on typical accident scenarios to young people, to improve their ability to anticipate the possible behavior of other road users, and thus to enable anticipatory action. In order to apply this knowledge to the young people, real accidents that have happened in the immediate vicinity of the school are processed and evaluated by the students.

HAIDLMAIR GmbH

DWS - rear-facing distance warning system for cars, trucks, buses, and two-wheelers. One of the most common causes of traffic accidents is a safety distance that is too short. Our patented invention continuously measures the distance from the following vehicle, taking into account the weather and notifies the driver if the safety distance is not being maintained. Now the driver decides whether or not he wants to warn the drivers who gets too close.

Institut für Zweiradsicherheit e.V.

Motorcycle: Safety for sure! Stay focused! The others may not be! For 40 seconds, marvel, smile, and maybe even identify yourself. It is a matter of concentrating on the essentials. This is often missing in traffic because our emotions are often difficult to control on the road. How could this be better summed up than with emojis, the ubiquitous yellow faces for every emotional and life situation?

jungvornweg GmbH

Light test from the Central Association of the German Motor Vehicle Industry. The light test is the most successful traffic safety campaign in Germany. It has been carried since 1956 by the 37,000 guild businesses of the automotive industry in Germany with its 450,000 employees. Cars, which are checked in the action month of October in the free light test in motor vehicles, are on the safe side.

Landespolizei Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The campaign will achieve and effectively implement a desired combination of prevention, accompanying public relations and repression (implementation of control measures), while promoting dialogue between police and citizens on road safety issues. Thus, depending on the monthly thematic focus (oriented to the main causes of accidents), new messages with the corresponding visualization are always created and published. Through the direct media monitoring of the control measures and the immediate announcement of the control results in the press and in the social media, the public's awareness of the dangers in road traffic is increased. In addition, the online presence will provide the population with the opportunity to react directly and unbureaucratically to the published figures and results, which are already widely used. In general, the campaign will significantly increase the public's acceptance of police controls in road traffic.

Radioplayer Deutschland GmbH

More safety on the road: The Bosch wrong-way driver warning function in the radio player. In current radio player apps Wrong-way driver warning function available as a free and optional add-on and applicable throughout Europe. Listeners who use the radio player in the car can use the new function to protect themselves against so-called “wrong-way drivers” on highways.

Robert Bosch GmbH

Bosch eBike ABS. Road safety for eBike drivers and their environment is a crucial factor. With the world's first production-ready antilock braking system for pedelecs, controlled, more stable braking is now possible even under difficult conditions. The Bosch eBike ABS combines the front-wheel ABS with a rear-wheel suspension control, thus ensuring greater safety. In difficult braking maneuvers it regulates the brake pressure and therefore optimizes the driving stability and steerability of the eBike. This reduces the likelihood that the front wheel will lock up and slip away or lift off the rear wheel. The risk of rollovers and falls can be reduced.

VDSI - Verband für Sicherheit, Gesundheit und Umweltschutz bei der Arbeit e.V.

Traffic safety film “I know how to make it safe”. The film discusses accidents on the road, while commuting, and at work, and shows that the problems of different companies are comparable. In cooperation with the German Road Safety Council (DVR), 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Bayer AG, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (Berlin public transportation), Berliner Stromnetz GmbH (Berlin public electricity utility), and the Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe (Berlin public sanitation).

3M Deutschland GmbH

3M™ Connected Safety – 3M platform for digital occupational safety equipment. The goal is to improve safety at work and to take advantage of the benefits of digitization at the same time. The basis is a digitized management system that provides safety officers an overview of the inspection status of equipment and the training status of employees. In addition, checklists can be created for machines and divisions, and reports can be generated at any time.

A3M Mobile Personal Protection GmbH

Global monitoring - travel safety. Global Monitoring including a mobile app protects travelers worldwide by providing current country and city information on the travel destination before the trip and warns and informs them during the trip by sending push notifications (travel alerts) about current, safety-related events at the respective location. Topics included (excerpt): Critical weather events, earthquakes, volcanic activity and ash clouds, terrorist attacks, crime, infrastructure, biology, and health, etc.

Advancis E-Learning GmbH

ArbeitsschutzFit© e-learning module. Knowledge transfer through personal contact and learning controls to deepen knowledge and test understanding.

ALS Automatic Logistic Solutions

Automatic package openers for intralogistics. The manual opening process is eliminated and the employee can concentrate on other activities. The system is of value even with a smaller volume of packages and can therefore be used in almost any business. No need for a box cutter. No need to come into contact with the box either. The risk of injury is reduced to 0.

Berufsgenossenschaft Handel und Warenlogistik

GIVE ME ZERO! - Zero accidents, zero loss – zero coincidence! A participatory campaign for everybody. Our goal: zero accidents and zero occupational diseases in your workplace in business and merchandise logistics. Employers, managers, employees, works councils, prevention experts. Every work accident, every occupational disease is one too many. Therefore values such as knowledge, awareness, and attentiveness are the factors we are counting on. The goal of the campaign is to establish a culture of prevention at work. And it depends on all the participants at work.

Berufsgenossenschaft Verkehr

Shopping guide for commercial vehicles. True to the T-O-P principle (technical, organizational, personal), with the purchasing guide we focus on technical requirements for vehicles – especially large trucks and trailers.

Carl Stahl Hebetechnik GmbH

Automatic load hook - Quick Link CLEH . The Quick Link CLEH automatic load hook is used to handle loads from a distance in order to prevent work accidents.

Caverion Deutschland GmbH

Campaign to prevent accidents involving electricity. Every accident beings with a scream! Either from fright or from pain. The major information campaign by Caverion Germany GmbH to prevent accidents involving electricity shows this onomatopoetically. Always with a small story how it came to be.

Ernst Wagener Hydraulikteile GmbH

GRIFA Softstep - ergonomically optimized access ladder. GRIFA Softstep eliminates the need to jump from the bottom step on large mobile machines. When the driver steps on the last rung to descend, the dynamic step slides with him, allowing him to step onto the ground easily. This eliminates the need to jump off. After the driver enters at a comfortable, low height, the bottom step retracts automatically, providing adequate ground clearance for the machine.

essity operations Mannheim GmbH

Training: Detection of risk potentials from unsafe conditions. Shows theoretical backgrounds for recognizing dangers and assessing the risk in a simple way and provides many practical exercises from the daily work routine.

Galderma Laboratorium GmbH

Action! Together against light skin cancer. The annual number of new cases of light (white) skin cancer is rising steadily. Especially people in outdoor jobs are particularly at risk because of the high daily work-related exposure to UV. For this reason, BK 5103 has been a recognized as an occupational disease since January 1, 2015. The campaign explains the different forms of the disease, points out risks, and provides information about preventive measures.

GÜNZBURGER STEIGTECHNIK GMBH

nivello® ladder foot shoe to prevent work accidents. The new nivello® ladder foot shoe by GÜNZBURGER STEIGTECHNIK is the first ladder foot shoe of its kind: It offers the user the highest degree of occupational safety and the ability to react to a wide range of challenges with exceptional flexibility.

Linde Material Handling GmbH

Interactive Safety Vest - Smart PPE for the protection of persons in in-company traffic. Sensible, audible and widely visible warning by flashing light signals are offered by the interactive safety vest. The communication between forklift and vest warn pedestrians and forklift drivers in potentially dangerous situations.

MBN Bau AG

Safety training. Video clip and questionnaire on the 9 vital rules of the BG Bau (employer’s liability insurance association for the construction industry).

RAG AG

SAFETY! Think before you start. Makes employees themselves safety ambassadors. The campaign motifs with real friends were intentionally designed in black and white to make the messages of mountain people in neon colors especially visible. With great success: Since the start of the campaign, the already low accident rate of 4.7 (2015) per one million working hours compared to the rest of the industry has fallen to a historical level of 2.1 (December 2018).

Rain Carbon GmbH

Security as a building block for success. Worldwide, mature and sustainable safety culture. The planning of the transformation of the location culture took place in a common strategy workshop, which among other things analyzed the questions, what and when had to change, who had to change and how and a clear delimitation of the responsibilities. This resulted in an action plan jointly developed by Rain Carbon and DSS that looked at the starting point and final destination of the site.

SAXONIA Technical Materials GmbH

MAKE SURE YOU’RE SAFE! The multi-project “MAKE SURE YOU’RE SAFE!” by the occupational safety group of SAXONIA Technical Materials GmbH consists of a total of five individual projects that have been or are being developed and successfully implemented for several years. Their aim is to improve safety in the workplace and in the private sector. The focus is on increasing safety awareness and the direct involvement of all employees.

Universum Verlag

The podcast for safety and health offers safety at work . The podcast raises its listeners’ awareness of occupational health and safety and provides support for occupational health and safety representatives in their daily work routine. Each episode lasts between 8 and 15 minutes.

Vossloh Fastening Systems GmbH

Safety First. Our campaign draws attention to a wide variety of potential hazards in the daily work routine. The goal to avoid work accidents. Various mandatory signs were linked to situations from our daily work. The posters that were created from this effort can now be seen in different places in the company. The entire campaign was translated into English and forwarded to the international Work Safety Committee. Also, all new trainees are involved in the project, making it an ongoing process.

WashTec Cleaning Technology GmbH

WashTec Message, the innovative occupational safety app. Report all incidents, accidents, and near misses (quickly and easily) regardless of the language via an app with downstream activities. WashTec serves to increase the reporting rate by reporting incidents quickly and easily via an app. Use the reporting of dangerous situations and damage as a source of improvement. Reduction of administrative work by a new standard process.

Deutsche Kinderhilfe, die ständige Kindervertretung e.V.

Dog bite prevention (for parents and children) to improve child protection. Every year, the media reports about humans being attacked by dogs. Tragically, children were affected once and again. Due to their height as well as their lively and spontaneous nature, they are particularly at risk of suffering bite injuries by dogs. Through various measures, we help to reduce biting incidents and promote safer handling of dogs. So we contribute to achieve an improvement in child protection.

GSW Gesellschaft für Siedlungs- und Wohnungsbau Baden-Württemberg GmbH

Future Living® Berlin. Smart home equipment that not only increases comfort, but also increases subjective and objective security for different types of households, is installed in 90 residential units in a small residential area in Berlin-Adlershof. It supports prevention and helps in the case of acute events.

GVV-Privatversicherungen AG

Save lives with the child locator. The child locator is a sticker that was developed in cooperation with the Cologne fire department. The special feature of this sticker is its highly reflective nature. It can be applied to the door of the child’s room to help the firefighters locate children fast in the event of a fire.

Initiative zur Prävention von Kohlenmonoxid-Vergiftungen

CO delivers a KO. The goal of the Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Initiative, which was launched in 2018, is to inform the public of the dangers of carbon monoxide to life and health, especially when fuel-burning appliances are used at home, and to reduce the number of incidents of CO poisoning.

Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales Berlin

Let the air in instead of poison! - Campaign on the dangers of carbon monoxide associated with hookah smoking. The continuing popularity of hookah smoking, especially among adolescents and young adults, has led to a need for education. Where the coal-powered hookah is smoked, dangerous carbon monoxide is produced. But the objective of the prevention campaign “Let the air in instead of poison” by the Regional Office for Health and Social Affairs is not to point the finger in judgment, but rather to provide information on good conditions. In order to reach young people in particular with this message, a music video was produced with rapper Graf Fidi and a campaign website was set up at shisha.berlin.de.

mybabyflow

Child Safety & Accident Prevention - Workshops & KIDS-SAFE-HOME Parties. mybabyflow offers group workshops, individual coaching and private KIDS SAFE HOME parties on the complex topic of child safety and accident prevention, to inform parents more comprehensively, to sensitize them to the dangers in the household and close environment, to provide security and to propose solutions to work with the customer.

Procter & Gamble GmbH

For a child-safe home: keep detergent safe. With its brands Ariel and Lenor, P & G is a partner of the German "Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Mehr Sicherheit für Kinder e.V." (BAG), the leading nationwide organization dedicated to the prevention of accidents and the promotion of child safety. Together, Ariel, Lenor and the BAG campaign for the safe use of detergents.

reer GmbH

360° home – The virtual safety tour As children grow, their mobility and the urge to discover also grow along with the inherent dangers and risks. In order to make these potential hazards visible to adults and to provide solutions, reer, the Swabian specialist in child safety offers a tour through its virtual 360° home in 3D. It give the user a view from a child’s perspective and detects dangers that often remain hidden to adults.

Safty Safari

Safety Safari was developed by children for children and is also taught by children as a supportive tool within the limits of their abilities. The goal is to train preschool and primary school children in safety awareness in their everyday life and to promote this awareness on an ongoing basis. And not with rules and lessons, but with fun and creativity. The focus of Safety Safari is to raise the awareness of our children to recognize dangers, to look after each other, to report events when necessary, and above all, to have fun.

SECVEL Technologies GmbH

SECVEL - intumescent fire-resistant bag for batteries. The SECVEL fire protection bag is a patented development from Austria and is manufactured in Germany. It is a refractory charging, transport and storage bag for batteries and batteries with special properties. It protects against explosion and fire caused by overheated or defective batteries and helps to contain the resulting consequences.

VIVAI Software AG

Smart Service Power: Living safely as a senior citizen – through technology! Smart Service Power is a digital assistance system for age-appropriate living. To ensure the quality of life and independent living in your own home, Smart Service Power provides state-of-the-art technology with the highest degree of data protection.

ambiotex GmbH

Ambiotex.safety. With the help of a textile equipped with sensors, employees receive a tool to monitor the individual psychological stress and to reduce the stress by appropriate instructions. In addition, the product can trigger an automatic alarm in the event of an accident. The product is initially aimed at employees in endangered occupations.

BikerSOS GmbH

BikerSOS - The Motorcycle App that Can Save Lives. BikerSOS is a mobile app for motorcyclists which automatically detects accidents and sends an emergency call to private contacts or an emergency call centre. Voluntary medical data is sent directly to the emergency services to be better prepared. With the Live Tour, links can be sent to friends who can then participate live in the driver's tour and know where the driver is.

BGM-Solutions Gesellschaft für ganzheitliches Gesundheitsmanagement mbH

Digital solution for safety and health in the workplace - occupational safety and prevention digitally combined. With the constant digitization and innovation of today, an efficient and profitable solution for the holistic control of safety and health in companies has been missing until now. The startup BGM-Solutions has therefore created a solution that is particularly useful and feasible for small and medium-sized companies.

Crashtest Security GmbH

Crashtest Security Testing Suite - Innovative solution for automately securing all web applications and APIs. The Crashtest Security Suite is an agile pentesting software for web applications and API interfaces. All types of applications (multi-page, single page and APIs) can be tested fully automatically for the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities (publicly available error database) without additional user effort.

DearEmployee GmbH

Digital solution for occupational health - helps employers to create healthy and motivating working conditions. With software, companies can carry out risk assessments of psychological stress, receive target group-specific recommendations for action and directly book measures in the areas of health protection, occupational safety and personnel development. All measures are automatically evaluated via the platform. That way, mental illnesses, absenteeism and fluctuation can be reduced in a targeted manner.

Hybrid Lidar Systems GmbH

Hybrid LiDAR Systems3D distance measurement by laser system. We build the first Hybrid LiDAR Sensor (ToF+PV) for autonomous driving. We invented and patented the hybrid process. The Hybrid Lidar Sensor is interesting for self-propelled vehicles, drones, waste management, agricultural machinery, port and logistics, home automation, steel and heavy industry, wind turbines and man-machine interactions.

Logical Safety

By connecting individual systems into a smart security system, security risks are to be detected and predicted at an early stage. In addition, this should also increase productivity. The solutions combine wearables, sensors, augmented reality, mobile software and communication technology to meet the challenges of industrial operations.

Neohelden GmbH

Neo, the AI assistant in maintenance and inspection processes on the data glasses. Neohelden GmbH develops Neo, the digital AI assistant for business. With the Neohelden Conversational Platform, medium-sized companies and corporations can "build" and configure their own assistance systems. That way, every employee can have a personal, digital assistant. Neo currently supports employees in a wide variety of areas by filtering information from various software tools, apps and machines/equipment, aggregating it and making it available at the right time. With Neo, artificial intelligence can be used immediately by companies and employees.

RISCO by IBSHURANCE

AI-powered workflow hub for insurance companies & providers to collaborate, automate & manage all claims related activities & services. Life and Work are prone to risk. Through a bespoke Virtual Assistant, RISCO provides the tools, resources and specialized services of a network of curated Partners to help both People and Companies to be safer and compliant in a fast-changing world.

SoSafe GmbH

SoSafe's awareness platform sensitises, trains and tests employees in the handling of IT security. Phishing simulations and interactive e-learnings teach employees in an effective and sustainable way what to pay particular attention to when using e.g. e-mails, passwords or social media. The employer receives differentiated reporting and can finally make awareness building measurable - of course completely DSGVO-compliant.

Serinus GmbH

Smart Event Communication. A mass accident on the highway, a robbery in a shop or a nursing home resident in distress - when the worst comes to the worst, it's good to be prepared. That's what Serinus was developed for. According to a defined set of rules, Serinus transmits information and alarms via all available communication channels, notifies all key players across departments and divisions, and communicates what reactions they need.

Universal Site Monitoring

Safety monitoring system for sites. The PSM Hero 715 proactively protects workers from preventable workplace accidents through its interface with the web-based Universal Data Interface (UDI). It offers a combination of real-time communication, gas detection, operational intelligence, location and environmental condition monitoring, monitoring slipping rides and falls, health metrics and other site-specific data required via Bluetooth devices. The PSM Hero 715 and its UDI are fully customizable to meet operational business requirements and compliance standards.