Statutory accident insurance: Preventing an occupational disease or avoiding the aggravation of an occupational disease
Employers' liability insurance associations and accident insurance funds can support you with preventive individual measures (individual prevention).
The measures are intended to counteract occupational hazards that can lead to an occupational disease. This applies to the following cases:
- the origin,
- the resurgence, or
- the exacerbation of an occupational disease.
Your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will work out the individual preventive measures and offer them to you. Your personal illness and the working conditions at your workplace are taken into account.
The aim of preventive individual measures is to ensure that you can continue to work as before without your health deteriorating. Depending on the occupational hazard and health complaints, the following measures are possible:
- technical measures at the workplace (e.g. installation of technical extraction devices, structural changes)
- Organizational measures at the workplace (e.g. reorganization of work processes, transfer of other activities, time limitation of hazardous activities)
- Optimization of protective measures (e.g. breathing mask, protective gloves, ear)
- health education seminars (e.g. skin protection seminars, training courses on back health)
- intensive personal consultations (e.g. occupational diseases, consultations, job-related care or on-site advice with the involvement of the company doctor)
- Curative treatment measures (e.g. treatment order, assumption of costs for special therapies)
Process flow
Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will contact you if it learns of a suspected occupational disease. For example, the employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund can be informed by your or her employer:
- Employer
- Company doctor
- Treating specialist
- Health insurance
You can also register yourself with your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund if you are exposed to a corresponding occupational hazard and have initial health complaints. This can be done online or by mail.
Online service:
- Go to the online service.
- You will be guided through the procedure on the accident insurance service portal.
- You can sign up.
- If you would like to receive the answer from your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your BundID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate yourself.
- If you would like to receive the answer by post, you can also continue without registering.
- Select your local employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance company or use the industry search to find out what you are looking for.
- Upload the required documents.
- Fill out the online form and submit it.
- Your report will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will check ex officio which specific offers are individually suitable.
- She will contact you and the necessary persons (e.g. employer, company doctor, attending physician).
- The necessary measures will be taken in consultation with all parties involved.
Online service of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund:
- If you have access to the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund, you can also submit the report electronically there if necessary.
Message by post:
- Contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund with an informal letter.
- Pay attention to the required information and enclose the necessary documents.
Requirements
You may be entitled to preventive individual measures vis-à-vis your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund if:
- you have health problems as a result of the performance of your work that could become an occupational disease, or
- You already have an occupational disease and notice an exacerbation.
Which documents are required?
You do not need to submit any documents.
What are the fees?
There are no costs.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
There are no deadlines.
Legal basis
Section 3 (1) sentence 1 of the Ordinance on Occupational Diseases (BKV)
§ 9 paragraph 4 sentence 3 of the Seventh Book of the Social Code (SGB VII)
Applications / forms
Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No
Online services available: Yes
Appeal
- Contradiction
- Detailed information on how to file an objection can be found in the notification of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
What else should I know?
There are no clues or peculiarities.
Information on the website of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV)
FAQ on the subject of occupational diseases on the DGUV website
Technically approved by
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Professionally released on
12.01.2023
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
