Core service
Workplace Risk Assessment.
A documented, up-to-date Gefährdungsbeurteilung that actually reflects what happens on your site, the hazards identified, the measures prioritised, and a clear record to show for it.
The problem
No assessment, or one nobody has looked at in years.
Plenty of businesses have never written a formal risk assessment. Others have one, but it was put together once and filed away, the equipment has changed, the process has changed, the people have changed, and the document hasn't. Either way, hazards get missed: machinery and work equipment, hazardous substances, noise, manual handling, screen-based work, lone working, and more.
That gap rarely matters day to day. It matters the moment an inspector walks in or something goes wrong, and at that point it stops being paperwork and starts being a liability.
Legally required, from the first employee. Under the German Arbeitsschutzgesetz (ArbSchG), every employer must carry out and document a risk assessment. There's no company-size threshold, it applies whether you have one employee or hundreds, scaled to the hazards actually present in the business.
What the service covers
Systematic, not generic.
Hazard identification
- Machinery and work equipment, activity by activity
- Hazardous substances and how they're stored, handled, and used
- Noise, screen-based workstations, and manual handling, where relevant
- Lone working and other situational risks specific to your site
Measures & upkeep
- Hazards turned into a clear, prioritised list of measures
- A basic check on whether measures actually reduced the risk
- The assessment kept current as equipment or the workforce changes
- A written record you can show at inspection, ready when you need it
Process
How an assessment actually gets built.
Site walk & activity mapping
We walk the site with you and map out the work areas, equipment, and activities that need assessing.
Hazard identification
Each activity and piece of equipment is checked against the hazards that actually apply to it, not a generic checklist.
Written, prioritised assessment
You get a documented assessment with measures ranked by priority, so you know what to act on first.
Review & update cycle
We agree a review rhythm and update the assessment whenever work, equipment, or the workforce changes.
Questions
About Workplace Risk Assessment
Yes. Under the German Arbeitsschutzgesetz (ArbSchG), every employer must carry out and document a risk assessment, starting from the first employee. There is no minimum company size below which it doesn't apply.
Whenever something changes: new equipment, new substances, a new process, a new work area, or a change in the workforce. On top of that, it should be reviewed periodically even if nothing obvious has changed, to catch anything that was missed.
Yes. The legal requirement under the ArbSchG doesn't set a minimum headcount. A small business with a handful of employees has the same obligation as a larger one, scaled to the hazards actually present.
It's a compliance gap, and it tends to surface at the worst possible time: during a labour inspectorate visit or in the aftermath of an incident. At that point, a missing or outdated risk assessment stops being paperwork and becomes a real liability. It's straightforward to fix before that happens.
Ready to close the gap?
Get a documented risk assessment in place.
Tell us about your site and workforce, we'll come back with a scope and a straightforward quote.