Berufsgenossenschaften: All about employer's liability Insurance Associations

(employer’s liability insurance association for the construction industry)

• Demolition, disposal and detonation
• Civil construction site sanitation
• Processing of municipal and hazardous waste
• Boat building, shipbuilding
• Bridge construction
• Well construction
• All types of roof work
• Decorative work
• Earthwork
• Erecting both open-trench and cut-and-cover civil construction sites
• Erecting traffic management installations
• Scaffolding
• Glasswork
• Track construction
• Production of all types of pre-constructed units
• Production of all types of concrete products
• All types of building construction
• Installations
• All types of insulation and sealing
• Cable installation
• Canal and pipeline construction
• All types of paintwork
• Assembly work
• Dredging, suction and wash work
• Furnace and air heater construction
• Pavement work
• All types of cleaning (of or in buildings)
• Cleaning and sanitation of pipelines and drains
• Chimney sweeping
• Safeguarding work sites near tracks
• All types of special civil engineering
• Playgrounds and sports grounds (civil engineering projects)
• Stonemasonry
• Road construction
• Street cleaning
• Stucco work
• Diving work
• Tunnel and gallery construction
• Jointing work
• Plastering
• Floor and wall coverings
• Water engineering works
• Tent construction
• All types of carpentry

(employer’s liability insurance association for the food and catering industry)

• Hospitality sector
• Restaurants
• Food production
• Luxury food, drink and tobacco
• Meat industry
• Feed production
• Production of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
• Mineral springs
• Fairs and amusement parks
• Circuses

(employer’s liability insurance association for raw materials and the chemical industry)

• Construction materials, stone, soil
• Mining
• Chemical industry
• Leather industry
• Papermaking and finishing
• Quarries
• Sugar industry

(employer’s liability insurance association for energy, textiles, electrical and media products)

• Energy supply companies
• Gas, remote heating, water supply and wastewater disposal companies
• Electrical engineering, precision mechanics and optical products
• Measurement, information and medical technology
• Aircraft and spacecraft technology
• Electrical installation companies
• Engravers, goldsmiths, watchmakers
• Production and processing of textiles, clothing, linens
• Shoe production
• Offset, screen, gravure and digital printing
• Graphics and pre-press
• Corrugated board and cardboard packaging
• Paper processing
• Photography and photojournalism

(employer’s liability insurance association for trade and goods logistics)

• All types of wholesale and retail, with or without a warehouse
• Trade-related companies
• Sales agencies, commercial brokers
• Commission and agency businesses that handle goods
  Installation of automated machines
• Renting and leasing of merchandise
• Sales and purchasing associations
• Agricultural goods cooperatives
• Wine cellars
• Scrap trade
• Scrap, recycling, waste and secondary raw material handling, including sorting and compacting
• Publishers whose products are predominantly produced with contract printing
• Sale, distribution and delivery of press products, including promotional material
• Reading circles
• Forwarding companies and agencies
• Goods distribution and logistics companies
• Storage and storage unit companies
• Port and shipping companies
• Port handling and cargo handling companies
• Loading and unloading, product control and similar companies
• Companies that manage and control goods, ‘aid for trade’

(employer’s liability insurance association for health services and social welfare care)

• Professional guardians
• Providers of outpatient nursing services
• Providers of private daycare facilities for children
• Lecturers and professors of healthcare
• Hairdressers and barbers
• Pedicurists
• Midwives
• Physical therapists
• Nurses
• Speech therapists
• Masseuses
• Medical bath attendants
• Paramedics
• Physiotherapists
• Pest controllers
• Daycare personnel
• Professionals in alternative medicine (reiki, shiatsu, kinesiology, Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine)
• Full-time nursing care professionals

(employer’s liability insurance association for wood and metal)

• Timber production
• Handling and processing of wood, plastics or similar materials
• Iron production
• Steel production
• Precious metal production
• Handling and processing of iron, steel, metal, precious metal, gemstones, semi-precious stones and similar materials

(employers’ liability insurance association for transport, post and logistics, telecommunications)

• Freight transport
• Passenger transport
• Air transport
• Disposal
• Driving schools
• Towing services
• Pilot associations
• Logistics
• Inland shipping
• Fisheries
• Telecommunications
• Postal and package delivery
• Funeral undertakers who regularly offer and provide funeral transportation as a commercial service
• Boarding stables
• Equestrian instructors with their own stables and training grounds
• Riding instructors with their own horses (riding animals)
• Keeping of stables and riding animals for commercial purposes
• Private keeping of riding animals

(agricultural employers’ liability insurance association)

• Agriculture and forestry
• Horticulture and viticulture
• Fish farming
• Fishpond cultivation
• Lake, stream and river fisheries (inland fisheries)
• Beekeeping
• Landscaping with a focus on nature and environment preservation
• Companies that, without cultivating land, keep livestock and breeding animals for the purposes of breeding, fattening or production of animal products
• Agriculture and forestry contractors
• Park, garden and cemetery maintenance
• Hunting stands (owned or rented)
• Chambers of agriculture and agricultural trade associations
• Securing, monitoring or developing agriculture (breeding associations, for example)

Sozialversicherung für Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Gartenbau
Weißensteinstraße 70-72
34131 Kassel
Tel.: +49 561 7850
poststelle@svlfg.de
www.svlfg.de

(federal and railway accident insurance)

• Salaried employees and trainees in the following fields:
  • Federal administration
  • Deutsche Bahn AG
  • The Bundeseisenbahnvermögen
  • The Federal Labour Office, including regional agencies
  • Political foundations, institutes, etc.
  • Foreign armed forces in Germany
• Volunteers and staff of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief
• Volunteers and staff of certain divisions of the German Red Cross
• Rehabilitants receiving professional development services from the Federal Labour Office
• Aid workers working for developmental aid agencies recognised by the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• Those who donate blood, organs and tissues at the German Red Cross
• Foreign exchange teachers
• Local employees of diplomatic and representative bodies abroad (embassies, general consulates, army facilities)
• Participants performing developmental volunteer services abroad
• Seconded nationals
• Foreign pensioners (displaced emigrants)

(public sector accident insurers)

• Federal government and Deutsche Bahn AG employees
• Civil servants
• Soldiers
• Judges
• Schoolchildren
• University students
• Those working in the public interest

(public sector accident insurers)

Hanseatische Feuerwehr-Unfallkasse Nord (HFUK Nord)
Hopfenstraße 2d
24114 Kiel
Tel.: +49 431 99 07 48-0
info@hfuk-nord.de
www.hfuknord.de

Responsible for Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia:

Feuerwehr-Unfallkasse Mitte

Magdeburger Allee 4
99086 Erfurt
Tel.: +49 391 54 45 90
sachsen-anhalt@fuk-mitte.de
www.fuk-mitte.de

Feuerwehr-Unfallkasse Niedersachsen
Bertastraße 5
30159 Hannover
+49 511 98 95 431
info@fuk.de
www.fuk.de

Feuerwehr-Unfallkasse Brandenburg

Müllroser Chaussee 75
15236 Frankfurt (Oder)
Tel.: +49 335 52 16-0
info@ukbb.de
www.fukbb.de

(German statutory accident insurance)

• Hamburg (LV Nordwest)
• Berlin (LV Nordost)
• Düsseldorf (LV West)
• Mainz (LV Mitte)
• Heidelberg (LV Südwest)
• Munich (LV Südost)