Occupational safety for IT and software
The duties are the same for every office and administrative business. What differs for IT and software businesses is where the risk assessment puts its focus.
- IT & software
What is different here
The highest share of remote work of any office sector. That shifts the focus of the risk assessment from the premises to an activity that mostly happens elsewhere.
The four points that matter
- Remote work as a regular workstation type. When half the workforce works from home half the time, it is no longer an exception. The telework section belongs in the assessment with the same standing as the office screen workstation.
- Server room and technical areas. Electrical equipment, heat load, fire load, and the question of who works there alone and how an emergency would be noticed.
- On-call duty and availability. Standby shifts and deployments outside regular hours affect rest periods and mental stress. The rest period of eleven hours as a rule applies then too.
- Fast growth. IT businesses cross the threshold of more than 20 employees without noticing. From then on an occupational safety committee has to be set up.
What a walkthrough typically turns up
The office itself usually reveals little; the workstations are new and well equipped. Two other places are where things surface. First the server room: cable routing, access, fire load and lone working. Second remote work, which simply does not appear during a walkthrough even though a substantial share of working time happens there. Anyone who only walks the office has missed the larger part of the screen work.
What that means for safety training
From this follows a separate remote-work block: setting up ergonomically with what is available at home, break arrangements, and the reporting route after an accident in the home working environment. Where on-call duty exists, the boundary between working time and rest period is added. For the server room, only those who enter it are trained.
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 IT and software businesses?
Do we need a separate risk assessment per location?
From when do we need an occupational safety specialist?
What does support cost for a business our size?
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Worry-free occupational safety in 4 steps
A simple path from the first conversation to audit-proof documentation.
Free initial consultation
We set out what the law requires, what you don't need and what we deliver. Clarity from day one.
Contract signed
One contract, predictable annual costs, booked directly with us. First contact to signature: five working days at most.
Occupational safety specialist on site
Your specialist visits for the walkthrough, produces the risk assessment and checks: what is there, what is missing?
Audit-proof documentation in the portal
Every record sits in the client portal: digital, complete, current, easy to share.
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