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    <description>Articles and notes on amended regulations in occupational medicine and health and safety for employers in Germany.</description>
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      <title>Food-hygiene instruction under Section 43 of the Infection Protection Act</title>
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      <category>Food-hygiene instruction (IfSG)</category>
      <description>Food-hygiene instruction under § 43 IfSG: affected activities, initial instruction by the public health office or a doctor, refresher every two years, records.</description>
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      <title>Occupational physician duty from the first employee</title>
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      <description>Occupational physician duty from the first employee: appointment under the ASiG, standard care under Annex 1 up to 20 employees, counting, safety committee.</description>
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      <title>Mandatory, offered and on-request check-ups under the ArbMedVV</title>
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      <category>Occupational health check-ups</category>
      <description>Mandatory, offered and on-request check-ups (ArbMedVV): occasions, AMR 2.1 deadlines (further ones at the latest every 36 months), certificate, register.</description>
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      <title>Fitness-for-duty assessment for driving, control and monitoring activities (formerly G 25)</title>
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      <category>Fitness-for-duty assessment</category>
      <description>Fitness-for-duty assessment (formerly G 25) needs a permissible basis; E FSÜ creates no duty to be examined. The employer does not receive a diagnosis.</description>
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      <title>Psychosocial risk assessment under Section 5 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act</title>
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      <category>Psychosocial stress</category>
      <description>Psychosocial risk assessment under § 5 ArbSchG: duty for every company, GDA features, six-step process, choice of method, effectiveness check.</description>
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      <title>Workplace reintegration management (BEM) under § 167 of Social Code Book IX (SGB IX)</title>
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      <category>Workplace reintegration</category>
      <description>BEM under § 167 SGB IX: duty after more than six weeks of incapacity for work in a year, participants, process, health data, role of the occupational physician.</description>
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      <title>Deriving Check-up Triggers from the Risk Assessment</title>
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      <category>Occupational health check-ups</category>
      <description>Deriving check-up triggers from the risk assessment: check the ArbMedVV Annex, draw up a check-up plan, keep a check-up register, amendment of May 2026.</description>
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      <title>Screen Work and Occupational Health Check-ups on Offer</title>
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      <category>Occupational health check-ups</category>
      <description>Screen work: offered check-up under the ArbMedVV before starting, again after 12 months, then at least every 36 months; eye examination, vision aids.</description>
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      <title>Natural UV Radiation and Heat when Working Outdoors</title>
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      <category>Occupational health check-ups</category>
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      <title>Work with a risk of falling from height: protective measures and health fitness</title>
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      <category>Fitness-for-duty assessment</category>
      <description>Work with a risk of falling: protective measures in a fixed order, rescue plan for harness protection; E ABS (formerly G 41) sets no duty to be examined.</description>
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      <title>BEM and gradual return to work: differences and interaction</title>
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      <category>Workplace reintegration</category>
      <description>BEM under § 167 SGB IX and gradual return to work under § 74 SGB V: differences, medical step-by-step plan, employer tasks, occupational physician.</description>
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      <title>Psychosocial stress in shift work and staff shortages</title>
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      <category>Psychosocial stress</category>
      <description>Psychosocial stress in shift work: assessment under § 5 ArbSchG, assessment units per shift team, stress factors and measures in the duty roster.</description>
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      <title>Post-exposure occupational health check-ups for carcinogenic substances</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Occupational health check-ups</category>
      <description>Post-exposure check-ups under § 5 para. 3 ArbMedVV for carcinogenic hazardous substances: reasons, exposure register, transfer to the insurer, AMR 11.2.</description>
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      <title>Occupational safety committee (ASA) under § 11 of the Occupational Safety Act (ASiG)</title>
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      <description>Occupational safety committee under § 11 ASiG: duty above 20 employees, counting, composition, tasks, occupational physician, quarterly meetings.</description>
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      <title>Digital occupational health care and telemedicine check-ups</title>
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      <category>Occupational health care</category>
      <description>Digital occupational health care: up to one third by video (§ 6 DGUV Regulation 2); first mandatory and offered check-ups under AMR 3.4 in person.</description>
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      <title>Occupational health and safety when setting up a company</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Occupational health care</category>
      <description>Health and safety for new companies: duties from the first employee, risk assessment, occupational physician, safety specialist, safety instruction.</description>
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