Occupational safety for advertising and creative agencies
The duties are the same for every office and administrative business. What differs for advertising and creative agencies is where the risk assessment puts its focus.
- Advertising & creative agencies
What is different here
High turnover and young teams. That makes safety training a continuous task rather than an annual date: if you hire continuously, you train continuously, before work starts.
The four points that matter
- Training for every new starter. The obligation attaches to employment, not its duration. Interns and short-term staff must be trained before starting work.
- Open plan and acoustics. Open floors are the norm in agencies. Acoustic disturbance is the most frequently named strain factor there and belongs in the mental stress assessment, not only in a furniture decision.
- Changing desks. Where nobody has a fixed desk, nobody adjusts the chair. With desk sharing, showing people how to set up chair, desk and monitor is basic equipment.
- Productions and events. Shoots, trade fair stands and events bring set-up and take-down, electrical equipment and work with ladders. None of that occurs in ordinary office life, and it needs its own assessment.
What a walkthrough typically turns up
Typical here are open-plan floors with high occupancy, hot-desking and a lot of equipment in little space. Recurring findings are cables across traffic routes, escape routes blocked behind partitions or props, and screen workstations meant as overflow that are used permanently without ever having been set up.
What that means for safety training
For safety training the rhythm matters more than the content. With high turnover the annual group session misses its target. What works is a short, always identical induction block before work begins, plus the annual core session for everyone. For productions, set-up and take-down, electrical equipment and ladders are added.
Related
- External occupational safety specialist: the scope under section 6 ASiG, the three support models compared and how the number of hours is calculated.
- Regions: an occupational safety specialist on site in eight regions across Germany, with the responsible VBG district office for each.
- Occupational safety by sector: what sets law firms, IT, agencies, real estate, associations, financial services and other business types apart.
- Duties quick-check: which duties apply at your headcount, from the occupational safety committee through safety officers to the end of the Unternehmermodell.
- Support-hours calculator: your support hours under DGUV Regulation 2, including the split between specialist and physician. The cost logic is explained in What does a safety specialist cost?
- Risk assessment in the office and safety training in the office: the two duties that apply to every office business from the first employee.
- Services overview: the complete scope required by the ASiG and DGUV Regulation 2 in one contract, with every sector and location we cover.
Frequently asked questions
Do different rules apply to advertising and creative agencies?
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What does support cost for a business our size?
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Occupational safety specialist on site
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