Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 4 2022
Trend Analysis by Risk Observation: How the German Statutory Accident Insurance Prepares for the Future in Occupational Safety and Health (Original article)
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 4 2022
Trend Analysis by Risk Observation: How the German Statutory Accident Insurance Prepares for the Future in Occupational Safety and Health (Original article)
Trend Analysis by Risk Observation: How the German Statutory Accident Insurance Prepares for the Future in Occupational Safety and Health (Original article)
Subject
Future, Occupational safety and health, Prevention, Risk observatory, Trends
Description
Background: The risk observatory (RO) of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) provides strategic support to the German Social Accident Insurance Institutions (GSAII) in proactive prevention. It does so by identifying future challenges and opportunities for occupational safety and health (OSH) resulting from new trends and developments that affect employees as well as children in elementary education, pupils, and students.
Methods: The core of the RO is an online survey that relies on a pool of new trends and developments identified via internet and literature research. 865 prevention experts of the GSAII and the DGUV
participated in the survey. They rated trends and developments regarding their sector-specific risks and opportunities for OSH in the 5 years to come.
Results: Sector-specific and over-all results show that besides well-known OSH risks such as musculoskeletal stress and noise, developments relevant for OSH come to the fore that do not have their origin in work itself, but are strongly influenced by political, social, economic, environmental, or technical developments that accident insurance can only peripherally influence. Shortage of skilled staff was identified as a threat to OSH in almost all sectors.
Conclusions: Prevention must find ways to address repercussions of such OSH risks. Cooperation and political awareness are therefore gaining in importance. Also, implementing a prevention culture in
society and strengthening individuals’ health and safety literacy, e.g., by target-group-specific communication and sensitization, as well as early safety and health education, help to counteract those OSH risks.
Methods: The core of the RO is an online survey that relies on a pool of new trends and developments identified via internet and literature research. 865 prevention experts of the GSAII and the DGUV
participated in the survey. They rated trends and developments regarding their sector-specific risks and opportunities for OSH in the 5 years to come.
Results: Sector-specific and over-all results show that besides well-known OSH risks such as musculoskeletal stress and noise, developments relevant for OSH come to the fore that do not have their origin in work itself, but are strongly influenced by political, social, economic, environmental, or technical developments that accident insurance can only peripherally influence. Shortage of skilled staff was identified as a threat to OSH in almost all sectors.
Conclusions: Prevention must find ways to address repercussions of such OSH risks. Cooperation and political awareness are therefore gaining in importance. Also, implementing a prevention culture in
society and strengthening individuals’ health and safety literacy, e.g., by target-group-specific communication and sensitization, as well as early safety and health education, help to counteract those OSH risks.
Creator
Angelika Hauke, Eva Flaspöler, Ruth Klüser, Ina Neitzner, Dietmar Reinert
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
December 2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 4 2022
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Citation
Angelika Hauke, Eva Flaspöler, Ruth Klüser, Ina Neitzner, Dietmar Reinert, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 4 2022
Trend Analysis by Risk Observation: How the German Statutory Accident Insurance Prepares for the Future in Occupational Safety and Health (Original article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed March 14, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2315.
Trend Analysis by Risk Observation: How the German Statutory Accident Insurance Prepares for the Future in Occupational Safety and Health (Original article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed March 14, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2315.