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HSE – Health | Safety | Environment – RWE Power | RWE

HSE Requirements & Documents

RWE Power/Nuclear

Occupational Health &
Safety Management
Personal safety
logbook
Occupational safety
status query
Reporting an
occupational accident
Get all the important HSE requirements and documents from RWE Power and RWE Nuclear here. If you have any questions or comments, our contact persons in the occupational health and safety department will be happy to help you.

Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS)

Unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the order, contractors must have an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) in place when working at RWE operating sites, on/in RWE plants or at RWE construction and assembly sites and provide evidence of this upon request.

An OHSMS is not required from contractors if the order exclusively relates to commercial or advisory services.

Click here to occupational health and safety management system certificates recognised by RWE.

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Personal safety logbook

The personal safety logbook is a personal document and serves to increase transparency and improve organisational and personnel conditions in the field of occupational safety. The personal safety logbook contains the employee's personal data, the employer data, preventive medical check-ups, instructions and training courses.

As from the date of issuance of the safety logbook or as from the conclusion of a corresponding agreement, the employer, i.e. usually your company as our contractor, is responsible for the correctness of the data, any updates and the handing out to its employees.


Personal safety logbooks can be obtained from:

Ströher Druckerei & Verlag KG
H.-H.-Warnke-Straße 15
D-29227 Celle
Phone: +49 5141 985 90
Fax: +49 5141 86627

Status Query on Occupational Safety (Prequalification)

With our qualification on occupational safety, you provide us with an overview of the quality of occupational health and safety in your company. Through this status query, we ensure that our partners comply with the requirements of occupational safety legislation or have successfully completed the certification of an occupational health and safety management system. This information is taken into account as part of our selection responsibility when awarding contracts.

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Reporting of occupational accidents involving contractors

We all know how quickly an accident can happen. But what actually happens after an accident? Where must an occupational accident at RWE be reported?

We will only get better at occupational safety and health together if we carry out a comprehensive investigation of the causes and develop measures that will lead to occupational accidents being prevented.

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  • Occupational accidents are accidents suffered by contractor staff during their work on behalf of RWE at RWE operating sites, on/in RWE plants or at RWE construction or assembly sites.

    Any accident resulting in a contractor’s employee or subcontractor’s employee, hired by the contractor, stopping work for at least one work shift/day shall be reported. Accidents involving agency workers (employees under the German Act on Temporary Agency Work, agency workers) must also be reported.

    The contractor commissioned by RWE is responsible for compliance with this rule.

  • The accident report shall describe the course of the accident known up to that point, the type and severity of the consequences of the accident, the cause of the accident as investigated and determined up to that point and the (initial) measures planned by the contractor or subcontractor to avoid such an accident in the future. If a final clarification of the cause of the accident is not possible within the period provided, the contractor shall submit a final report immediately after its clarification.

  • The contractor shall submit the accident report in writing to the contact person at the client responsible for the execution of the contract.

  • As a rule, occupational accidents must be reported within three working days of an accident. Serious accidents (gas or electricity accidents, accidents with an impact on the public, accidents involving rescue services and/or intervention by the authorities) must be reported immediately.

  • The accident report shall describe the course of the accident known up to that point, the type and severity of the consequences of the accident, the cause of the accident as investigated and determined up to that point and the (initial) measures planned by the contractor or subcontractor to avoid such an accident in the future. If a final clarification of the cause of the accident is not possible within the period provided, the contractor shall submit a final report immediately after its clarification.

  • The accident report is forwarded within RWE according to the company-specific reporting chains. The stipulations of the  “General Supplementary Conditions: Occupational Health and Safety (GSC Industrial Safety)” and/or RWE Power’s information sheet on work by outside personnel shall apply.

Reporting an occupational accident

To report an occupational accident, please use the form Meldung von Arbeitsunfällen durch Auftragnehmer (Reporting Occupational Accidents by Contractors, only available in German).

Send the report to your contact at the client.

Create a Lesson Learned

To create a Lesson Learned, please use the Lesson Learned template.

Send the Lesson Learned to your contact at the client. 

Occupational health and safety

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