Accidents at the workplace and the resulting production stoppages cost German companies billions of marks in damages annually. The TÜV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg therefore recommends that its customers set up an industrial safety management system.

For example, TÜV specialists perform inspections of technical service providers - so called "contractors" - according to the SCC (safety-certificate-contractors) checklist. The SCC system is used to reduce accidents at work and to keep downtimes as minimal as possible.