Risk assessment measuring system by the accident insurance institutions

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The measuring system risk determination of UV carriers - MGU (formerly BGMG) is used in Germany to determine and document valid and assessable measured values ​​as well as the associated data from company workplaces on employee exposure to hazardous substances , biological agents and noise at the workplace . Measurements of the indoor climate have also been part of the MGU since 2014 .

tasks

According to Section 19 of the Seventh Book of the Social Code , the accident insurance institutions have, among other things, the legal task of monitoring the prevention of accidents, occupational diseases and work-related health hazards and advising companies. This includes monitoring compliance with statutory occupational exposure limits . As part of these tasks, they determine the concentrations of hazardous substances, biological agents and the level of noise pollution at company workplaces. The Technical Rule for Hazardous Substances (TRGS) 402 "Determining and assessing the risks involved in activities involving hazardous substances: Inhalation exposure" defines the procedure for measuring hazardous substances. The retrospective documentation of the measurement data serves as proof of the occupational cause in the recognition procedure for occupational diseases.

construction

The MGU is based on a division of labor consisting of the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA) and the measurement services of the statutory accident insurance carriers. A quality management system should ensure that the quality of the measurements and the validity of the results correspond to those of accredited measuring bodies. The testing laboratories are operated in accordance with DIN EN ISO 17025 “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories”. All laboratories affiliated to the MGU take part in round robin tests .

Use

A large amount of data on the working and exposure conditions is collected in the company for the respective measurement. A measurement report is created for each measurement, on the basis of which the UV carrier initiates measures to protect employees in the company. All data collected in the MGU are collated and documented in the IFA exposure database MEGA "Measurement data on exposure to hazardous substances at the workplace". The database has been kept for hazardous substances since 1972 and contains over 3.37 million data records as of the end of 2018. The data documented in MEGA are available to the UV carriers for prevention and epidemiology as well as for investigations in connection with reported cases of occupational diseases; the data flow into publications.

As part of the MGU, the accident insurance institutions also determine noise pollution at workplaces. The data are documented in the Noise Exposure Database - MELA ("Measurement data on exposure to noise at the workplace"). The database has been maintained since 1998 and comprises 35,000 processes with 457,000 values ​​for L pAeq ( equivalent continuous sound level ) and 193,000 values ​​for L pCpeak ( peak sound pressure level ) as well as a further 371,000 measured values. The database also contains over 300 processes relating to the indoor climate with more than 50,000 measured values.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA): IFA - Hazardous substances: MEGA exposure database. Retrieved on February 19, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA): Annual report 2018. Accessed on June 25, 2019 .

Web links