Do you need a safety expert opinion for your project, a statement after a workplace accident, or a review of an existing report for correctness and completeness? Our expert safety engineers assess plants, incidents and documents in occupational safety, health, fire and environmental protection – for companies, insurers, lawyers and courts.
An advisory statement answers a specific safety question on the basis of findings, rules and the state of the art – traceably, with disclosed assumptions and sources. Triggers are workplace accidents and near misses, planned or existing plants, disputes over responsibilities between client and contractor, orders by authorities or insurance cases. We prepare statements as private expert opinions for companies, lawyers and insurers and as court-appointed experts.
We review existing expert opinions and statements from the perspective of occupational safety, health, fire and environmental protection: are findings complete, conclusions substantiated, rules correctly applied?
We prepare safety expert opinions for project-related triggers, including the investigation of workplace accidents – for courts and for private clients.
In occupational safety, health, fire and environmental protection our qualified safety engineers advise you – also before the opinion: whether one is needed and which question it must answer.
Three situations in which our clients commission an advisory statement:
Reconstruct the sequence of events, determine causes on the technical, organisational and personal level, name deviations from the rules – without blame, but with a clear conclusion.
Is the planned plant, the installation concept, the site set-up sound from a safety perspective? Does it meet the state of the art and the permit? The statement creates clarity before construction starts.
Who was responsible for securing the work? Was the instruction sufficient? For lawyers, insurers and courts we deliver the safety assessment – as a private expert opinion or as a court-appointed expert.
An expert opinion answers the question asked – not a different one. We formulate it with you before we start.
What was seen, measured, documented, when and where? Findings and assessment stay separate – so anyone can check what the conclusion rests on.
Statute, ordinance, DGUV regulation, technical rule, standard – with reference. The state of the art is substantiated, not asserted.
Where information is missing, the opinion says so – and states what changes if it is provided later.
Every conclusion follows from findings and rules. A layperson must be able to read the path, an expert to check it.
We assess what we see – even if the client does not like the result. That is exactly what makes the statement robust.
From enquiry to the signed report – usually within two to six weeks; after accidents with securing of evidence within a few days on site.
Question, documents, parties, appointment – recorded in writing.
Site visit, photo documentation, measurements, interviews, evaluation of documents.
Comparison with rules and state of the art, cause analysis, classification.
Written report with findings, assessment, answer to the question and measures; on request explained on site or in court.
It creates a robust professional basis for decisions: release of a plant, conversion, recourse, settlement, defence. It replaces neither legal advice nor an official decision – it provides the safety-related factual and assessment basis for them.
Accident opinions contain personal data and trade secrets. We work under a confidentiality agreement, hand documents only to the client and identify persons only as far as the question requires.
Our safety engineers assess in these areas:
For questions outside our fields – such as structural engineering or electrical engineering in detail – we involve specialist experts or tell you who can answer the question better.
Advisory statements complement our Safety Consulting. These building blocks interlock:
Know, delegate and document operator duties.
Safety-I, Safety-II, HOP and the Bradley Curve – critically assessed, also for accident analysis.
HSE manager on site who implements the recommendations from the opinion.
An advisory statement is the written, reasoned answer of an expert to a specific technical question – here from occupational safety, health, fire or environmental protection. It contains the question, findings, applied rules, assessment and result. It serves companies, insurers, lawyers and courts as a professional basis for decisions.
In practice the terms are often used interchangeably. An expert opinion is usually more comprehensive, with complete findings and cause analysis; a statement answers a narrower question, for instance on the plausibility of an existing opinion or the soundness of a concept. We define scope and designation with you in the commission.
For expert opinions in occupational safety there is no legally protected title in Germany; what counts is expertise, experience and independence. Our experts are safety engineers trained as occupational safety specialists with many years of practice in industry, energy and construction. Courts appoint experts according to their expertise; publicly appointed and sworn experts under § 36 GewO exist for individual fields.
As soon as possible – before traces are removed, plants changed or memories overlaid. We are usually on site within 24 to 48 hours and secure findings, photos and statements. The actual evaluation and assessment follow afterwards without time pressure.
That depends on the question, the scope of the findings, the number of site visits and the effort for evaluation. We charge by the hour with an effort estimate in the quote; reviews of existing opinions usually at a flat rate. After a short conversation about the question you receive a quote.
Yes. We review existing opinions for completeness of findings, correct application of rules, coherence of the assessment and disclosed assumptions – and name what holds and what does not. The result is a statement your lawyer can use in the proceedings.
Trigger, question, date: with three details we tell you whether and how we can help – and get back to you within one working day, on the same day after accidents.
