Driving and operating activities (formerly G 25)
Forklifts, cranes, control stations, shift leadership.
Service · Fitness-for-Duty Assessments
Fitness-for-duty assessments,
clearly documented.
For safety-critical activities it must be clear whether a person can perform them. We assess that according to the applicable principles, document the outcome and tell you what we based it on.
D
Driving
R
Respiratory
H
Hyperbaric
A
At heights
Screening or assessment,
what is the difference?
Preventive screening is about prevention. The examination belongs to the employee, the employer only receives the participation certificate.
A fitness-for-duty assessment is about whether someone may carry out a specific activity at all — wearing respiratory protection, working at heights, driving a truck.
Here the client needs the outcome. Otherwise they cannot decide whether the employee may take up the activity.
Screening
Assessment
Purpose
Counselling, prevention
Basis for decision
Who gets the result?
Employee personally
Client + employee
Legal basis
German occupational medicine ordinance (ArbMedVV)
depending on activity (FeV, ASiG, DGUV principles)
Typical examples
Display screen, skin conditions, infection (formerly G 37, 24, 42)
Driving/operating, respiratory protection, hyperbaric, working at heights (formerly G 25, 26, 31, 41)
For fitness-for-duty assessments the communication of the result to the client is required by law. We explain the finding to the employee personally. Both receive the same information — nobody is bypassed.
Who commissions an assessment?
Three typical paths. Depending on who you are, there is a matching form and a matching contact person.
Company / HR
Assessing employees for safety-critical activities. Industry, construction, logistics, workshop operations.
Open path →Private individual
Self-payer path for driving licence fitness, recreational boating licence or official requirements.
Open path →Authority / Fire service leadership
Fire service fitness (respiratory protection formerly G 26.1 to G 26.3, hyperbaric/diving formerly G 31, working at heights formerly G 41), police fitness, other services.
Open path →What we assess most often.
Respiratory protection (formerly G 26.1 / G 26.2 / G 26.3)
From filter devices to compressed-air breathing apparatus. Fire service and industry.
Hyperbaric work (formerly G 31)
Compressed-air construction sites, fire service divers, professional divers.
Display screen fitness (formerly G 37)
Rarely requested as a pure fitness assessment, occasionally in special constellations.
Working at heights (formerly G 41)
Roofers, industrial climbers, height rescue.
Special fitness
Shift work, hot work, fitness for assignment abroad (tropical fitness).
Further assessments on request. If it is unclear which principle applies to an activity, get in touch briefly — we sort that out in five minutes on the phone.
Certificates after the examination
Two certificates, clearly separated.
For the client
Confirmation of participation. By email with password, no medical details.
For the examined person
Certificate with details of the examination if applicable. Handed over on site, sent by email for later lab results.
When the standard isn't enough.
Offshore fitness (AWMF / OEUK)
OEUK Registered Doctor, AWMF standard, recognised in the UK and Norway.
Fire service fitness
Respiratory protection (formerly G 26.1 to G 26.3), hyperbaric/diving for fire service divers (formerly G 31), working at heights for height rescue (formerly G 41).
Driving licence & FeV
Truck (class C/CE), passenger transport (D/DE, taxi, driving instructor), recreational boating licence.
How a fitness assessment
works with us.
Fitness assessments are somewhat more involved than screenings. Plan one to one and a half hours for the examination itself.
1
5 min
Request
Via the online form or by phone. We clarify which principle applies.
2
1 – 3 working days
Appointment
Directly with the employee or the client. The pre-questionnaire goes out beforehand.
3
45 – 90 min
On-site examination
History, physical examination, functional diagnostics (ECG, lung function, vision and hearing test, depending on occasion).
4
same day
Finding + certificate
The employee receives the explanation in person. The client receives the outcome: fit, not fit, or fit with restrictions.
What we examine.
Always included
- History (prior illnesses, medication, previous fitness assessments)
- General physical examination
- Vision test (visual acuity, colour vision depending on occasion)
- Hearing test (audiometry for noise-exposed activities)
Depending on the assessment
- ECG (driving/operating, respiratory protection, hyperbaric, working at heights)
- Lung function (respiratory protection, hyperbaric)
- Exercise ECG (G31, sometimes G26.3)
- Lab work (e.g. blood glucose for driving activities)
- Written psychometric tests (certain FeV fitness assessments)
From our practice philosophy„A fitness assessment is not a judgement about a person. It is a statement about whether a specific activity fits their current preconditions. That is an important difference."
Request a fitness assessment.
Tell us about the activity and for how many people we should examine. We discuss the rest personally.