Accident prevention regulations (UVV)

The Accident Prevention Regulations (UVV) represent binding occupational health and safety obligations for every company and insured person.

In Germany, according to § 15 of the Seventh Volume of the Social Code (SGB VII), the "Berufsgenossenschaften" (employers' and professional liability associations of each industry) are the providers of statutory accident insurance and are therefore responsible for issuing accident prevention regulations (BGV, previously UVV), which must be approved by the Federal Ministry for Employment and Social Affairs.

The statutory accident insurance providers issue accident prevention regulations as autonomous law concerning

1. facilities, instructions and measures which the employers have to implement to prevent accidents at work, occupational diseases and occupational risks to health, and the form of transfer of these tasks to other persons,
2. the insured persons to prevent accidents at works, occupational diseases and occupational risks to health,
3. medical examinations to be organised by the company and other medical measures, during and after the carrying out of the work, which is associated with occupational risks to life and health for the insured persons or for third parties,
4. prerequisites which the doctor engaged with the investigations or measures according to number 3 has to fulfil if the medical investigation is not provided for by a legal regulation,
5. ensuring effective first aid by the employer,
6. the measures which the employer must take to fulfil the obligations resulting from the law concerning company doctors, safety engineers and other experts for occupational safety,
7. the number of safety representatives to be appointed according to § 22 taking into account the number of occupational risks to life and health for the insured persons in the company and the number of employees.
   

In the accident prevention regulations according to Sentence 1 No. 3, it is possible to specify that occupational health examinations can also be arranged by the statutory accident insurers.

The "Berufsgenossenschaften" call the accident regulations issued by them "employers' and professional liability association's regulations for health and safety at work" ("Berufsgenossenschaftliche Vorschriften für Sicherheit und Gesundheit bei der Arbeit" BGV).

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