Muellheim, 18 March 2008

Safety Certifcate Contractors (SCC) is a certification procedure for safety management systems which considers relevant occupational health and environmental aspects.

By increased efforts in occupational health and safety, chemical and petrochemical companies managed to considerably reduce their workplace accident rates.

Meanwhile, these efforts are also expected from partner companies, i.e. contractors, performing technical service work on the premises of chemical and mineral oil companies.  

What are the advantages of SCC?

For the contractor

• reduced consequential costs from accidents
• increased staff motivation
• improved quality and environmental consciousness
• competitive edge for certified companies
• improved legal certainty and accountability

For the customer

• reduced consequential costs from accidents which fall within the responsibility of the customer
• aid to decision-making when selecting suppliers

6 executive managers working in service, 1 service engineer and 27 service technicians from all service centers in Germany  were trained and and passed the rather difficult exam.

The certificates have a validity of 10 years, after that both the training and the exam has to be repeated.