GDA-ORGAcheck

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The GDA-ORGAcheck is an instrument of the Joint German Occupational Safety and Health Strategy (GDA) with which companies can evaluate the organization of their occupational health and safety themselves, identify weak points in the health and safety organization and initiate necessary improvement measures. This enables companies to bring their occupational health and safety organization to a legally compliant and optimal condition for operation. The advantages of a good occupational safety organization and risk assessment are not only evident in the form of better health for the employees , but also in the form of higher productivity and fewer production downtimes.

Starting position

The world of work is subject to constant change. Only companies with healthy, efficient, qualified and motivated employees will be able to face the new challenges successfully. Maintaining and improving healthy working conditions is therefore in the interests of companies and employees.

The basis for safe and healthy workplaces is a well-functioning internal occupational safety organization. Experience with occupational health and safety management systems has confirmed, for example, that improving the quality of the health and safety organization significantly reduces the likelihood of occupational accidents and disruptions in the work flow. The occupational health and safety organization is only effective if essential elements of occupational health and safety are an integral part of operational processes and decisions, and safety and health are integrated into the operational organizational structures. Another essential basis for safe and healthy workplaces is the quality of the operational risk assessment .

Therefore, in the context of the 'improving the organization of occupational safety, labor protection method - paying off, "the stable long-term GDA the GDA Orga check as a for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) optimized self-assessment tool developed. With the GDA-ORGAcheck, actors in companies receive an instrument with which they can systematically analyze the quality of the occupational safety organization in the company and initiate improvement measures.

construction

The GDA-ORGAcheck is based on the topics of the GDA guideline “Occupational Safety Organization” and the GDA guideline “Risk assessment and documentation”. With these guidelines, the advisory and monitoring activities of the supervisory services of the federal states and the prevention services of the employers' liability insurance associations and accident insurance funds are harmonized.

According to this, an occupational safety organization contains 15 elements that are also mapped in the GDA-ORGAcheck :

  1. Responsibility and assignment of tasks
  2. Control of health and safety measures
  3. Company medical and safety-related care
  4. Competencies for occupational safety
  5. Risk assessment
  6. Instruction of the employees
  7. Regulatory requirements
  8. Occupational health and safety legislation
  9. Representative and representation of interests
  10. Communication of occupational safety
  11. Preventive occupational health care
  12. Planning and procurement
  13. Contractors, temporary workers and suppliers
  14. Information for temporary workers and temporary employees
  15. First aid and emergency procedures

A target is formulated for each individual topic, which also clarifies the benefits of this point to the operational actors. Then the possible need for action is formulated in a question. The questions represent a "translation" of the central questions and assessment criteria of the GDA guideline "Occupational Safety Organization" that is relevant for SMEs. The user can then assess his need for action. As in the GDA guidelines or in the risk assessment of the risk assessment , this is done in the form of the traffic light model.

In addition to assessing the need for action, the online tool and the APP provide users with specific suggestions for measures to be taken on the respective points. In addition, further GDA practical aids can be found here, which make it possible to implement the defined needs for action and measures as directly and specifically as possible in the company.

particularities

The GDA-ORGAcheck has the following special features compared to other instruments in the field of occupational safety:

  • Common standard of the GDA bodies on the requirements for systematic occupational safety for small companies . In addition to the classic occupational health and safety institutions, the social partners also contributed to the development of the content of the GDA-ORGAcheck by consensus.
  • Practical implementation of the contents of the GDA guidelines “Organization of occupational health and safety” and “Risk assessment and documentation” formulated for the occupational safety experts.
  • It is an aid that can be used not only by those in charge of the company, managers or occupational health and safety actors, but also by employees and that stimulates sustainable and systematic processes of thought and action in the company.
  • Occupational health and safety advisors, such as occupational safety specialists or company doctors , receive an instrument for the structured implementation of their consultations.
  • Voluntary participation in a benchmark is offered, which enables a comparison of one's own occupational safety organization with the results of other companies.
  • The GDA-ORGAcheck was developed in coordination with the management tool “Guter Mittelstand” of the Initiative Neue Qualität der Arbeit (INQA) . The systematics and the structure of both instruments are thus coordinated and comparable.

Versions

The online tool and the APP of the GDA-ORGAcheck offer full functionality , such as interactive processing and evaluation forms, benchmarks, additional information, legal bases and assistance as well as practical aids. There is also the GDA-ORGAcheck in the form of a brochure in print and PDF version.

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