What is the DEKRA Award?
Do you have an initiative or process that prevents accidents and makes the world a little safer?
The DEKRA Award was initiated to enhance the importance of safety as a key success factor of forward-looking action.
With the DEKRA Award, DEKRA, the media partner WirtschaftsWoche and our network partner Gründerszene offer a first-class opportunity to present best practices in the four areas of "Safety on the Road", "Safety at Work", "Safety at Home" and "start-up" to the public. The focus will be on outstanding achievements or solutions that make the world a safer place.
In the cross-cutting "Startups" category, we are looking for young companies whose business models demonstrate innovative solutions in the areas of "Safety at work", "Safety in traffic" and "Safety at home".
We are currently searching for suitable candidates for the DEKRA Award in this category, for example in the following topic areas:
Safety in traffic
- People and behavior in traffic
- Traffic planning and infrastructure
- Traffic safety technology
- New mobility concepts
- Other
Safety at work
- Preventive, identifying and responsive cybersecurity solutions
- Risk management
- Occupational health and safety
- Other
Safety at home
- Accident prevention within the home
- Accident prevention in the immediate vicinity of the home
- Fire protection
- Health risks
- High-risk people as a target group
- Other
With your expertise and commitment, you help protect people in road traffic. In doing so, you deal with human behaviour in traffic or predictive planning in road traffic. Alternatively, you implement manufacturer-specific developments that reduce the number of road casualties.
We are looking for companies, organisations, initiatives and individuals who contribute to increased safety in transport thanks to their concepts or measures.
Subject areas:
- People and behaviour in road traffic
- Traffic planning and infrastructure
- Road safety technology
Thanks to pioneering best practices, you have established a safety culture that is desirable for other companies and organisations. You have recognised that protecting employees is a good thing and that risk management and innovative management concepts can be established with safety initiatives.
We are looking for companies, organisations, initiatives and individuals who operate in the field of safety at work in an exemplary manner.
Subject areas:
- Management commitment
- Innovative management concepts
- Safety initiative
- Risk management
- Safety training and communication
- Work and health
- Occupational health and safety in production
Thanks to your concept, initiative and measures, you contribute to the prevention of accidents in the home or in the immediate vicinity. For example, you prevent mechanical risks in order to minimise fire hazards, or draw attention to safety risks and possible solutions at home.
We are looking for companies, organisations, initiatives and individuals who have achieved outstanding things for more safety at home.
Subject areas:
- Prevention of accidents at home
- Prevention of accidents in the immediate vicinity of the home
- Fire safety
- Health risks
- Target group: particularly vulnerable people
- Campaigns and initiatives
