Haut Optimal - Graduated Skin Protection Consultation by Telephone, Consultation Mobile and Seminar
Since 2006, patients with occupational skin diseases of the Berufsgenossenschaft Handel und Warenlogistik (BGHW) have been provided with skin protection products and advice by telephone. This form of intervention can become effective immediately after notification of the disease with little organisational effort, regardless of the insured person’s place of residence and mobility.
In addition, there is the possibility that insured persons of the Regional Directorate East (with the locations Berlin and Gera) can be visited at their place of residence or place of work by means of a mobile counselling service. One- or two-day skin protection seminars with a focus on food and/or wet work, conducted at five locations throughout Germany, as well as skin protection seminars for florists, workshops and storage facilities conducted at individual locations, supplement the measures.
If necessary, the prevention service is also called in. This service determines, for example, the allergens occurring at the workplace and advises the insured persons and the company on site. This procedure enables all insured persons suffering from skin diseases to benefit promptly from repeated skin protection consultations. In the context of an initial follow-up examination of insured persons (random sample) who were advised in this way in 2016, it was possible to examine the intended effects of the skin protection consultations based on target criteria.
Additional advisory services, for example in the form of a video consultation hour and webinars, are being planned.
