
In Germany, preventive care often fails not for lack of awareness but for lack of an easy path. Anyone who has to arrange their own doctor's appointment for blood pressure or blood sugar tends to put it off — indefinitely. When measurements can be taken directly at the workplace, that hurdle disappears.
What a Workplace Screening Achieves Voluntary workplace preventive checks capture values that stay invisible in everyday life: high blood pressure produces no symptoms for a long time, millions of Germans have blood sugar levels in the borderline range without any awareness of it, and an elevated stress level is only taken seriously once someone sees it on a scale of 1 to 10. Screening makes this visible — in a protected, uncomplicated setting, without a medical diagnosis, but with clear recommendations for action.
How to Make Screening Day Effective Anyone who just receives results and is left alone with them is worse off than before. The real value comes from a brief interpretation: What does this value mean? What's a good next step? A doctor or nurse on-site — not to treat, but to guide — makes the difference between a good offering and a very good one.
How to put it in place
- 1Betriebsarzt oder externen Anbieter für Check-ups buchen (Blutdruck, Blutzucker, BMI, Cholesterin)
- 2Umfang und Ablauf festlegen: kurze Messung pro Person, verständliche Erklärung der Werte, Zeitfenster einplanen
- 3Geeigneten, diskreten Raum organisieren – Gesundheitswerte sind privat
- 4Freiwilligkeit und Datenschutz vorab klar kommunizieren
- 5Angebot ankündigen: Was wird gemessen, warum ist es wertvoll (frühe Standortbestimmung)?
- 6Zeitfenster-Buchung anbieten, um Wartezeiten und Andrang am Stand zu vermeiden
- 7Betonen: freiwillig, vertraulich, Ergebnisse ausschließlich für die Teilnehmenden
- 8Reibungslosen, getakteten Ablauf sicherstellen (Empfang, Messung, kurze Einordnung)
- 9Teilnahme während der Arbeitszeit ermöglichen
- 10Datenschutz strikt wahren: keine Weitergabe von Einzelwerten an den Arbeitgeber
- 11Bei auffälligen Werten auf ärztliche Abklärung verweisen – kein Alarmismus
- 12Nur anonyme Gesamtzahlen (Teilnahme) fürs BGF-Reporting festhalten
- 13Feedback zum Ablauf einholen
- 14Passende Folgemaßnahmen ableiten (z.B. Bewegungs- oder Ernährungsangebot bei häufigen Auffälligkeiten)
What you need
- Effort
- multi-day
- Cost
- with budget
- Duration
- 1-2 Tage
- Setup
- 960 min
- ✓ Medically grounded
- ✓ High appreciation
- ✓ Data for KPIs
Eligible for funding: up to €600 tax-free
As part of a structured workplace health process, this measure is tax-free under § 3 no. 34 of the German Income Tax Act (EStG) up to €600 per employee per year — BGF-Kompass supplies the process. Certified offers (e.g. from Upfit) are additionally subsidised by statutory health insurers under § 20b SGB V.
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