Employee protection

• Employers
  
• Safety Representatives
  
• Works councils
  
• Preventive services
  
• Employees
  
• First Aiders
  
• Fire Protection Officer
  
• Occupational Health and Safety Committee (ASA)
  

The Employee Protection Act pays particular attention to issues of work organisation, psychological stress and the influence of the environment on the workplace. All these aspects must be taken into account for comprehensive health protection at work. 

In order to promote health in the workplace, structures must be created in the company that prevent accidents, for example. This is checked above all by regular evaluation of the farms. 

• Workplace evaluation: Employers must identify and assess the risks to the safety and health of workers. On the basis of the results, they determine measures for hazard prevention. The Labour Inspectorate monitors the results and measures. 
• Accident, illness: Work-related illnesses are diseases in which the world of work plays a decisive role as a causative or aggravating factor. The most common work-related diseases are musculoskeletal disorders, respiratory diseases, diseases of the digestive system, mental illnesses and cardiovascular diseases. After occupational diseases, accidents at work are the second type of insured event in statutory accident insurance. In addition to classic accidents at work, commuting accidents and accidents during school and university attendance as well as during assistance are also covered.
  
• Workplace: The working environment can put a strain on workers' health, for example due to heat, cold and
  noise effects, the design of the workplace or the organisation of work. 
  
• Protective equipment: Many professional activities require the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). For example, these finishes protect against various manual effects as well as dust, hazardous substances, outdoor UV radiation, noise and much more. The Personal Protective Equipment Ordinance (PPE-V) regulates the selection, testing and safe use of personal protective equipment.
  
• Agents: Agents are all substances, mixtures (preparations) and biological agents used in work. Substances are hazardous if they are hazardous to explosions, fires or health.
  

• Occupational and organizational psychologists advise employers and employees on how to prevent psychological and psychosomatic effects. 
  
• Safety specialists advise employers and employees on occupational safety and humane work design. The focus is on accident prevention.
  
• Occupational physicians advise employers and employees on maintaining and promoting health in the workplace. Occupational physicians work together with safety representatives and works councils on all issues of occupational safety.
  

In workplace health promotion (WHP), working conditions are questioned. The aim is to improve health and well-being in the workplace and to prevent work-related complaints and illnesses. WHP's measures focus in particular on tackling the causes and expand or supplement traditional employee protection. 

Increasing life expectancy combined with the decline in the birth rate is changing the age-specific composition of our society. In the near future, there will be significantly more older people than younger people. Many companies are not prepared for these changes, as too little experience has been gained so far in promoting the ability to work up to an older working age. In order to preventively promote the ability of employees to work at the company level, an integrated systematic management approach, also known as age management, is needed.