Occupational safety for marketing and PR
The duties are the same for every office and administrative business. What differs for marketing and PR is where the risk assessment puts its focus.
- Marketing & PR
What is different here
A substantial part of the work happens at events. Trade fairs, press appointments and events are field work with set-up and take-down, long hours on your feet and travel, and none of it shows up in a walkthrough of the office.
The four points that matter
- Trade fairs and events. Stand build, transporting material, work with ladders and electrics in someone else's halls, plus long hours standing. That belongs in the assessment as its own section.
- Travel. Journeys by rail, car or air, overnight stays and return trips after long days. Commuting accidents are reportable accidents at work, and rest periods apply while travelling too.
- Community management. Anyone running channels reads abuse and threats. That is a mental stress under section 5 paragraph 3 ArbSchG and needs a reporting route, a contact person and aftercare.
- Campaign peaks and availability. Launch dates and crisis communication create peaks with availability beyond working hours. Because they are mostly predictable, they can be planned for.
What a walkthrough typically turns up
The office floors are usually unremarkable apart from acoustics and hot desks that are never adjusted. What is missing is the assessment for trade fairs and events: no record of who is deployed how often, no rules for build work and ladders, and no agreement on how an accident in someone else's exhibition hall is reported. For channel management there is usually no documented approach to hostility at all.
What that means for safety training
An events block comes on top of the office standard: conduct in someone else's halls, build work and ladders, electrical equipment, breaks during long hours on stand, and the reporting route after an accident on site. For channel management, add a short block on handling hostility: when to escalate, who to talk to, what aftercare exists.
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 marketing and PR?
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
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Free initial consultation
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Contract signed
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Occupational safety specialist on site
Your specialist visits for the walkthrough, produces the risk assessment and checks: what is there, what is missing?
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