Workplace health management
Support workplace health with a structured approach.
Health-related workplace prevention should follow from real pressures, risk assessments and organisational aims. Measures need a clear purpose, an appropriate place in health and safety, and reviewable, data-minimised delivery.
Context
Connect health with work organisation
Workplace health management considers health-related pressures, work organisation and prevention together. Start with actual activities and existing structures. Ergonomics, health prevention and leadership in health and safety are possible starting points, not a universal list of measures.
Work design
Look at working conditions first
Work design and protective measures come before individual appeals when the cause lies in working conditions. Start with actual activities: what pressures arise, and which organisational conditions influence them?
Starting points
Choose relevant starting points
Ergonomics, health prevention and leadership in health and safety may provide relevant starting points. They are not a universal programme for every workplace. What matters is how an approach fits activities, existing arrangements and organisational aims.
Distinction
Distinguish roles. Respect confidentiality.
Health promotion, occupational medicine and occupational safety can complement one another, but serve different purposes. Health management replaces neither risk assessment nor occupational health surveillance. Individual medical advice remains confidential; it is not a collection of personal health information for the employer.
Coordination
Discuss organisational needs personally
Describe the organisational reason and relevant work areas. Services are generally delivered in-house at your organisation’s premises. Scope and arrangements are agreed according to needs, without blanket outcome promises. Do not send health information through the website form or email.
In practice
From the workplace context to a relevant approach.
Understand the context
Consider activities, pressures and existing arrangements.
Set priorities
Connect relevant starting points with organisational aims.
Agree arrangements
Keep responsibilities, scope and privacy clear.
Clarify next steps
Connect occupational safety, medicine and prevention appropriately.
FAQ
Common questions, answered directly.
What makes prevention useful in an organisation?
A clear connection to working conditions, audience, ownership and reviewable measures.
Are health activities automatically occupational safety?
No. They may complement but do not replace risk assessment and protective measures.
Is health information collected?
We do not collect health information through this website. Individual medical advice and organisational arrangements remain separate. Do not send health information through the website form or email.
Source basis
Sources and further reading.
- Section 3 ArbSchG – general duties of the employer Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz
- Section 5 ArbSchG – assessment of working conditions Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz
- Section 3 ASiG – duties of occupational physicians Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz
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