Company skin protection plan – perfect skin protection at work

Our daily work puts strain upon strain on our hands. Keeping our skin healthy is really important – skin diseases are often long-term and cause considerable suffering, while the absences from work they cause result in high costs. The most frequent causes are excessive skin stress, repeated exposure to irritants such as cleaners and disinfectants or acidic or alkaloid substances in water that cause the skin’s regenerative mechanisms to fail. In 2015, basal-cell carcinoma – or non-melanoma skin cancer – and its precursors were added to the list of occupational diseases. Skin diseases constitute roughly one third of verifiable indicators for occupational diseases.

Many companies use model skin protection plans that fail to account for all risks to the skin posed at the respective workplace, and which assume that the employees’ skin is healthy to start with. A tailored skin protection plan will accommodate the requirements specific to every employee and also detail skin protection measures and skin care appropriate to the workstation.

Setting up a skin protection plan that matches your business proceeds through the following steps:

• The actual strains for skin are identified by means of an on-site risk assessment.
• Risk assessments are conducted by safety professionals and medical officers.
• The hazards at the workplace are documented in a skin protection plan and suitable skin protection measures are detailed.

The benefits of a specifically tailored skin protection plan at a glance

• Skin protection matching the actual working environments in your company.
• Greater likelihood that skin protection products are used properly.
• Products in the various departments used properly and at the right time.
• Specifically avoid or prevent the personnel’s skin diseases.
• Reduce costs caused by occupational diseases:
  • Cut business costs.
  • Improve productivity through better safety.
  • Reduce employee absences.

Your tailor-made skin protection plan is only a few steps away:

We’ll take you through the four steps of setting up your ideal skin protection plan – to create transparent skin safety for the best-possible protection of your workforce. Get the complete package of competent advice, skin protection plan drafting and comprehensive product range to gain perfect skin protection before, at and after work that will keep your skin well and healthy.

Skin protection at work: detailed skin protection plan

A comprehensive skin protection plan should illustrate the four stages approach:

• Skin protection product before and during work.
• Skin cleanser before and during work, matching the level of contamination.
• Skin care product after work, matching the skin’s condition.
• Disinfectant where appropriate.

Where and how do I put up the skin protection plan?

A skin protection plan is provided by the employer and should be freely accessible to all personnel.
The plan should be attached in a clearly visible place close to the dispensers or washing area. These places are also where the products specified in the skin protection plan are kept on hand. There will also be descriptions showing which skin protection product to use for which jobs.