New* DEKRA Solutions Issue 1 2014

Customer Magazine ISSUE 1.2014
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Emission measurements
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Induction
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Editorial
SOLUTIONS, THE MAGAZINE
PRODUCED FOR DEKRA’S CUSTOMERS
Contents
Imprint
Portrait of Beata Bublewicz
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DEKRA SE
Editorial
News
DEKRA staff in portrait
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DEKRA Automotive
Test facility for pedestrian protection systems
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City portrait of Warsaw
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Stefan Kölbl,
Claims settlement for an insurance company
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Chairman of the Board of Management DEKRA e. V. and DEKRA SE.
DEKRA Industrial
Construction support services
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Periodic inspections at the Charité
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Occupational safety in prefabricated house construction
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Emission measurements from biogas installations
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DEKRA PERSONNEL
Induction training for delivery drivers
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ast year our company grew by another
3,000 employees and thus, for the first time,
crossed the threshold of 30,000 employees.
DEKRA is a job creator, and not just in Germany,
because our focus is becoming increasingly international. Around 44 per cent of our experts work
outside of Germany. Examples of this are the several recent acquisitions we have made in South
Africa, Australia and New Zeeland.
However, we are not only making geographic efforts to seek out new, interesting markets and topics. For instance, closer to home, we
also measure the emissions of equipment designed
to generate electricity and heat from biogas, and
are improving pedestrian protection in cars at our
new, innovative test facility.
Our city portrait takes you on a walk
through Warsaw and introduces you to its most
important buildings. And our personal portrait
sketches the career of Beata Bublewicz, one of the
most influential transport politicians in Poland
and daughter of the rally driver Marian Bublewicz.
We hope you enjoy reading the latest issue
of our customer magazine. ❮
Article Number: 83228, Solutions 1.2014
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Winners and jury members at the DEKRA Award 2013
ceremony in Stuttgart in November.
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Categories and Award winners
■ Safety category – Focus 2013
DEKRA Award
Lots of ideas
The premises of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart
were chosen as the venue for DEKRA’s official DEKRA Award
2013 presentation ceremony on 12th November. The award
went to three applicants for top business performance in the
categories health, environment and safety.
The DEKRA Award honours the best long-term solutions to future questions posed by the economy and society.
This was the third time that DEKRA had teamed up with the
German economics magazine “Wirtschaftswoche” and called
on companies to submit their ideas and concepts. Winners
were decided by a high calibre jury.
At the award ceremony, Stefan Kölbl, Chairman of the
Board of Management of DEKRA e. V. and DEKRA SE, was
keen to stress that Germany had a strong, innovative economy and an enormous reservoir of companies with excellent ideas. Lothar Weihofen, Managing Director of DEKRA
Certification Group and initiator of DEKRA Award, likewise
praised the award winners who had set new standards with
their business concepts. ❮
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“Successful project management“: Volkswagen AG,
Wolfsburg.
According to the panel, with its “mach.18FACTORY”
Volkswagen has taken a holistic approach in introducing a programme driven by the future and change in
the production and logistics of the VW brand.
■ Environment category – Focus 2013
“Green logistics“: Fritz GmbH & Co. KG, Schwaigern.
According to the panel, as a medium-sized haulage
company with a workforce of 600 employees, Fritz
GmbH & Co. KG has been exemplary in implementing
sensible and systematic measures for the reduction of
CO2 emissions. The jury also praises the ecological
focus of the entire company.
■ Health category – Focus 2013
“Sustainable personnel policy“: Vanderlande
Industries Logistics Software GmbH, Dortmund.
According to the panel, Vanderlande Industries Logistics Software GmbH has introduced a holistic concept
aimed at actively searching for young staff. A cleverly
conceived health and safety concept rounds off the
personnel policy.
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Aquisition in New Zealand
Strategic expansion
As the world’s largest testing
organisation in the automotive sector,
DEKRA acquired in September a majority stake in Vehicle Testing New Zealand
(VTNZ). In acquiring VTNZ, DEKRA
is systematically continuing its strategic internationalisation and the expansion of its core automotive business unit
outside Europe and is now represented
in 29 countries with its own inspection
­stations or through partners. Initially, the
former owner Motor Trade ­Association
(MTA) is selling 60% of its shares to
DEKRA. The leading automotive testing
service provider in New Zealand, VTNZ,
generates annual sales of more than
EUR 50 million with around 850 employees and 84 inspection stations
nationwide. ❮
In acquiring VTNZ, DEKRA continues its strategic expansion of core automotive business units outside Europe and taps the Asia-Pacific growth region with this move.
20 years of DEKRA in the Czech Republic
Double jubilee
In
September, DEKRA celebrated two anniversaries simultaneously
in the Czech Republic: the 50th anniversary of the founding of the company and
the 20th anniversary of its incorporation
into the DEKRA Group. The company
also once again received the CEKIA
­Stability Award with an AAA rating, making it one of the top 100 companies in the
country. Around 60 guests, among them
representatives of the top management of
DEKRA SE, deserving and long-serving
employees, as well as affiliated company
representatives from Germany, Poland,
Slovakia and Brussels, came to celebrate
the double anniversary in the DEKRA
House at the Türkova 1001 in Prague and
once again remembered the history of
DEKRA in the Czech Republic. ❮
DEKRA celebrates 50 years of doing business in the Czech Republic. The Czech subsidiary has been part of the DEKRA Group for 20 years.
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European Commercial Vehicle Safety Award 2013
Honour
D
ipl.-Ing. Christian J. Börner received the European Safety
Award for Commercial Vehicles 2013 during the 8th DEKRA / VDI
Symposium in Klettwitz. The German Road Safety Council (DVR),
the European Association for Accident Research and Analysis (EVU)
and DEKRA honoured Börner for his commitment to improving the
safety of commercial vehicles. ❮
News In Brief
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Hotel inspection
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Certification
DEKRA carries out inspections for the corporate group nh Hoteles in Germany and helps the
­Spanish based hotel chain over and above the
actual inspections, with the periodic inspection
of technical services and plant, such as, for example, the ventilation system, fire alarms, warning,
extinguisher and electrical equipment. The NH
Hotel Group runs 60 hotels totalling over 10,000
rooms in Germany.
DEKRA and GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Projektmanagement e.V. are working together to
train project managers. DEKRA Academy will
be offering tailor-made certification seminars
for project staff at every level of management in
accordance with the GPM 4 level qualification
standards. With more than 6,300 members, GPM
is the largest European competence network of
project management experts.
8 th DEKRA / VDI Symposium on Load Securing
Practical driving tests
Some 200 representatives from
the transport industry, scientific institutions, automotive sector and public
authorities attended the 8th DEKRA /
VDI Symposium on Load Securing on
Road Vehicles at the DEKRA Technology Center in Klettwitz which was held
on 23rd – 24th October 2013. Technical innovations, new guidelines and a
wealth of best practice solutions for load
securing on trucks and in vans were the
focus of this gathering of experts which
is intended to help the understanding of
theoretical models and the implementation of reality-based solutions as well as
proposed changes to regulations. In order
to support this process, practical driving
tests supplemented the programme of
lectures and discussions. ❮
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With and without load-dependent ESP, vans showed different driving behaviour at the
8th DEKRA / VDI Symposium on Load Securing in Klettwitz.
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DEKRA work safety barometer
Negligent companies
More and more companies are
taking an interest in the performance of
their staff. These are the findings of the
DEKRA Work Safety Barometer 2013/14.
In the study DEKRA interviewed around
800 companies on the state of their health
and safety policy and their targets. Two
thirds of employers were of the opinion
that “job and physical fitness” was a core
issue of their company health policy. However, DEKRA work safety experts were
shocked when they found out that one in
ten companies had not carried out a risk
evaluation even though it is required by
law. This would mean that in the event of
an accident at the workplace the head of
the company himself would be liable. ❮
At the presentation of the study Dr Clemens Mayr from DEKRA expressed his concern
that one in ten companies violated work safety regulations.
DEKRA Cargo & Security Services GmbH
A man’s best friend
The
new requirements for
safe air cargo transportation have now
allowed for the use of specially trained
dogs as part of security controls. Since
September DEKRA Cargo & Security
Services GmbH (DEKRA CSS) deploys
Bessy, a Belgian Shepherd, and Freki,
an English Springer Spaniel, for air cargo
inspections. Together with their dog
handler, Dietmar Seidlitz, they form
the newest members at the air cargo
inspection team. Both dogs are able to
detect explosives reliably and make their
human handlers aware of suspicious
packages. The new explosives detection
dog team makes DEKRA CSS one of
only three providers in Germany authorised to use this technique for inspecting
air cargo. ❮
Bessy draws the attention of her human colleague, dog handler Dietmar Seidlitz,
to suspicious pieces of freight during the safety inspection.
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Construction support services
A good arbitrator
The Kö-Bogen in the heart of Düsseldorf is the new top address for lifestyle and fashion. In order to ensure that everything runs smoothly when
the property is handed over to the tenants, the building developer has
enlisted the help of DEKRA Industrial International.
For many Düsseldorf residents the new
Kö-Bogen has already become an icon of worldclass architecture. With the completion of his
impressive building complex in the ­Königsallee,
the New York architect Daniel Libeskind has realised his vision of a department store of the future
in the regional capital of North Rhine Westphalia. This is why it is very appropriate that the
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retail company Breuninger has opened a flagship
department store as the Kö-Bogen’s first tenant.
On 15,000 square metres of sales floor spread over
five storeys the luxury department store from
Stuttgart offers a range of fashion and lifestyle
articles. The official opening on 17th October 2013
was, however, not just a milestone for Breuninger.
The building developers, “die developer Projekt-
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entwicklung GmbH”, had most probably marked
this date on their calendar, too. This is because the
opening makes abundantly clear that the handover
of the business premises, which had taken place
five months earlier, had been a complete success.
However, back then the department store’s
elegant fashion world was still at the design stage
and merely existed in the heads of those architects
and designers that Breuninger had commissioned
to undertake the interior design. What the developer had to hand over to the tenants was, in comparison to this, more like an austere shell. “The
tenant wants to know whether he can move into
the property as described in his tenancy agreement. A project of this magnitude, however, can
lead to people having different expectations of
the status and quality of the landlord’s services,”
explains Ulrich Hartard, the developer’s technical project manager. The fact that the handover
was completed to the satisfaction of all parties
involved is, in the project manager’s estimation,
not least due to the work performed by DEKRA.
The developers enlisted the help of the construction management experts at DEKRA Industrial
International in March 2013. They were tasked
with verifying whether the property fulfilled the
stipulations of the tenancy agreement and was
structurally ready to be handed over to the tenant. Moreover, DEKRA was to act as an arbitrator
for the developer and tenants if required. The idea
behind this was that the experts could settle any
differences between the parties in a quick, easy,
no-nonsense manner. “Obviously the tenants
would have to accept the arbitrator, but the competence displayed by DEKRA made this easy for
everybody,” reports Hartard. ❯
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With the Kö-Bogen at the northern end of Düsseldorf’s Königsallee,
architect Daniel Libeskind realised his vision of a department store of
the future. The complex consists of two 26-metre-high buildings that
are connected by a bridge.
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❯ For DEKRA project manager Dennis
Lucke work at Kö-Bogen began with an intensive
study of the building description in the tenancy
agreement. This contained exact stipulations on
the parameters such as room height, noise insulation, electrical installations and technical equipment. The compressive strength of the floor plays
an important role. “Loads of up to 500 kilograms
per square metre can be caused when the shop staff
pull a trolley loaded down with goods across the
sales surface,” explains Lucke. The experts therefore take a very careful look at the screed. The
inspection routine involves random sampling, for
example, in order to determine the moisture content and thickness of the screed.
And when it transpires that the building
work does not tally with the building description?
“If that happens, we have to determine, document
and evaluate the deviations,” says Lucke describing the work of the assessor. “In this event both
developer and tenant expect clear instructions on
how to proceed. In certain instances, minor deviations can be tolerated if they are of no significance
for further building progress. However, if there is
a major fault, it has to be rectified.” Lucke himself
needs to work speedily on his arbitrator’s report.
The quicker the documentation is available, the
faster the workmen can rectify time-consuming
faults. Time is, however, precisely a commodity
that the contractual partners do not have because
the opening deadline is drawing inexorably closer.
“The flexibility and speed at which
DEKRA works has relieved the pressure in this
phase of the project. There was always a contact
partner for deadlines, acceptance inspections and
questions regarding the report,” says Hartard in
high praise of the experts. The other Kö-Bogen
tenants also profit from the smooth cooperation between the developer and DEKRA. Dennis
Lucke is in charge of the handover of the retail
premises to top brands such as Strenesse, Joop,
Windsor and Faber-Castell. The final inspection
of the general building components of the KöBogen is also still on his duty roster. Only then
will the department store of the future really have
arrived in the here-and-now.
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DEKRA expert Manfred Barmscheid checks
the correct installation of the ventilation
system on the ground floor of the Kö-Bogen.
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The building specifications include exact
details about the ground and define the
quality of the surface and the joint pattern
of the pavements in front of the building.
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Before the handover of the shell, scheduled
“DEKRA displays impressive
competence, speed and flexibility.
The arbitrator’s reports were
always excellently documented!”
Ulrich Hartard, Project Manager, die developer
Projektentwicklung GmbH.
tasks such as checking shaft dimensions,
installation heights and elevator surfaces
are on the roster of the experts.
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As the first and largest tenant of the complex,
Breuninger opened its luxury department
store with sales areas of around 15,000
square metres on 17th October 2013.
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DEKRA also checks whether installation,
joint pattern and connections of the facades
Contact
Jörg Berner
Head of Construction Management
DEKRA Industrial International GmbH
Phone +49.6 81.50 01-5 01
Fax +49.6 81.50 01-7 77
E-mail [email protected]
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Induction training for delivery drivers
Part and parcel of the job
DEKRA Academy and DEKRA Qualification have developed an induc­
tion course for delivery drivers at the parcel shipment company GLS. The
course, which provides all-round technical preparation and behaviour
training, is aimed at improving customer satisfaction and at reducing the
high turnover of new drivers.
Being able to drive solo is not enough.
The training required for a parcel deliveryman
goes well beyond just holding a valid driving
licence. What is needed is a professional approach
as a driver and deliveryman, as well as social
competence, which is conveyed, for example, in
a well-groomed and polite appearance. However,
that is just the beginning, as the day-to-day work
of a deliveryman is full of surprises.
People entering the profession who are
insufficiently prepared for the variety it involves,
frequently feel unable to cope in practice. This
results in many new drivers resigning before they
“We want to support our partners in
improving their service quality and in
significantly reducing driver turnover and
the costs involved in recruiting personnel!”
Walter Kleine, Project Manager, GLS Holding B.V.
Contact
Jörg Lages
Head of Göttingen Branch
DEKRA Akademie GmbH
Phone +49.5 51.5 05 29-17
Fax +49.5 51.5 05 29-15
E-mail [email protected]
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have even completed their probationary period.
This is also true of the parcel delivery company
GLS, which tasks independent companies to carry
out their transport service. “We want to support
our partners in providing a high degree of quality in the delivery process and in significantly
reducing staff fluctuation and the costs involved
in recruiting personnel,” says Walter Kleine, who
is heading the project at GLS Holding.
With this in mind GLS turned to the
DEKRA Academy in Göttingen in March 2013.
The DEKRA manager in Göttingen, Jörg Lages,
teamed up with DEKRA Qualification and
DEKRA Media to develop a multi-stage concept
and the multimedia training material required.
The training course involves a two-day training
period in the classroom as well as internet-based
training which the participants can continue to
use via a web link. The training is rounded off by
a preparation phase with a film about the daily life
of a delivery driver.
Training units also include the topics of
load securing, hazardous goods, driving safety
and social skills. Running under the slogan “the
delivery driver as a brand ambassador”, units
cover behaviour both on the road and towards the
recipient.
An initial phase launched back in September saw managers and selected transport companies attending the two-day classroom training
session. “The aim was to achieve a broad-based
acceptance of the project within GLS as well as
among our transport companies, encouraging
them to sign up their drivers to attend the training course,” explains Lages.
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General Logistics Systems
Around 14,000 employees and approximately 18,000
vehicles are out and about every day working for GLS.
The company is based in Amsterdam and delivers parcels
for 220,000 customers in Europe and also offers express
delivery and logistics services. The group’s own companies
and partners cover 37 European countries and have entered
alliances across the globe.
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Helpful character analysis: drivers can use a quadrant
model to better categorise themselves and others.
Together as a team: the participants appreciated the more
fun-like approach instead of dull theory.
The delivery driver is a brand ambassador and reflects the
company. A well-groomed appearance and social skills are the
key to a positive impression when engaging with the customer.
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Charité – University Hospital Berlin
The Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe. Established
in 1710, it is spread across four sites and comprises more than 100 clinics
and institutes, administratively concentrated in 17 Charité centres. With
13,200 employees, the Charité is one of the largest employers in Berlin.
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On the roof of a Charité building, DEKRA
expert Maik Scheffler checks the general
condition and function of the smoke extraction system.
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The strands of all the technical equipment
come together in the fire control centre.
Each repair, each inspection has to be
reported here first.
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Also in the research laboratories, the
approved DEKRA expert in building law
convinces himself that the numerous fire
dampers work perfectly.
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Periodic inspections at the Charité
Regular checkups
The Charité in Berlin enjoys a worldwide reputation. To ensure that healing,
research and training can be performed at a high level, the technical side of
the university clinic must function without a hitch. DEKRA contributes to this.
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arely has DEKRA been asked to implement such a huge project as the periodic inspections at the Charité in Berlin with its four campuses
and around 80 individual buildings, distributed
across the city over an area larger than 100 football pitches. In order to stay on top of things, a
lot of preplanning and coordination is required
before the actual inspection work goes ahead.
The person to keep track of this is DEKRA
employee Maik Scheffler. The approved building law expert evaluates all mechanical smoke
extractors and fire protection components of the
ventilation and air conditioning systems in the
Charité buildings. His DEKRA colleagues inspect
the natural smoke extractor, fire extinguisher and
electrical installations.
Scheffler proceeds methodically building by building, storey by storey. “A building can
have up to 800 fire dampers integrated in the wall
or ceiling and all need to be tested for efficacy
and operational safety,” explains the expert who
manages between 60 and 70 of them a day. The
49-year-old qualified engineer for plant engineering studies all the necessary documentation in
advance so as to reduce the time he needs searching for the dampers.
The inspection itself is effected on the
basis of the building ordinance for Berlin. The law
stipulates that such a periodic inspection must
take place every three years. This is the third time
that the DEKRA expert Scheffler has visited the
Charité site. DEKRA managed to convince the
technical department of the university clinic of
the advantages of cooperation with the Stuttgartbased technical monitoring organisation for the
first time back in 2006.
“We are not just a clinic. The Charité is a
hospital, research institute and also a teaching cen-
“We appreciate the direct and personal
contact with DEKRA as well as the
technical discussions at eye level!”
Thomas Flügel, Head of Plant Management, Technical Installations & Operations Division, Charité.
tre. There are various technical installations and all
of them need to be kept up and running,” stresses
Thomas Flügel, Head of Plant Management in the
Technology & Operations division at the Charité.
The varied uses and the constant changes in the
buildings, as well as the 24-hour operation mean
that the clinic requires inspection engineers able
to display a high degree of flexibility, understanding and technical knowledge. And this is exactly
what they have found in the DEKRA engineers.
“They are technically competent. We can
conduct discussions with them at eye level and
find a solution for every problem,” says Flügel.
Last-minute coordination and the rearrangement
of appointments for the inspection services at the
Charité were possible at any time with DEKRA
and he has nothing but praise for the organisation
that was given six months to complete this mammoth project.
❮ Frank Hausmann
Contact
Marc Tiedemann
Sales Berlin | Brandenburg
DEKRA Automobil GmbH
Phone +49.30.98 60 98-27 60
Fax +49.30.98 60 98-27 77
E-mail [email protected]
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Portrait of Beata Bublewicz
Petrol in the blood
The fascination for engines, cars and transport is virtually in Beata Bublewicz’s blood. Her
father, Marian Bublewicz, was a rally driver known throughout Europe, who loved fast cars
and motor sport. His legacy still influences her political work in the Sejm, the Polish parliament in Warsaw, to this day.
Beata Bublewicz immediately stands out in the
hustle and bustle along the corridors of the venerable Polish
Parliament: slim, elegantly dressed, with long light blond hair
and a beaming smile she heads from her office to the plenary
assembly chamber. In the male-dominated world of Polish
capital city politics in which only 23 per cent of the representatives are women, the Polish member of parliament of
the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) under President
Donald Tusk handles herself well. She feels convinced “that
everyone here, man or woman, can achieve anything he or
she wants. However, you have to know what you want,” says
Bublewicz.
She actually comes from Olsztyn, former Allenstein in
Warmia, an area of natural beauty and lakes in the north of
Poland. After finishing school she studied sociology and public relations at Warsaw University. However, her professional
carrier began in the automotive industry. This is because
after her father’s fatally tragic accident during a winter rally
shortly before her 18th birthday, Bublewicz assumed his duties
and headed the Opel dealership of General Motors Poland in
Olsztyn. She held this position for eight years.
Bublewicz still has petrol in her blood to this day. She
quite often is a guest at automotive events or rallies in and
across the whole of Poland. Her most recent mission was to
award the cup to the winner of the 70th Polish Rally in the
name of State President Komorowski.
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She finds it very important and indeed her duty to nurture the memory of her late father. “When somebody, like my
father, suddenly dies in an accident, the traces of this death
remain ingrained in our life, the life of the family,” says the
politician. Her charity activities help her to cope with the pain
of the loss of her father. She aims to improve safety on Polish
roads and thus reduce the number of road deaths and injuries
through her work on different campaigns and initiatives.
In the Sejm, Bublewicz has a number of political functions. She is Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee for
Road Safety. Since her first term of office in the Sejm in 2005,
Bublewicz has sat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, where
she has mostly been involved in matters such as development
aid in a global context and human rights. In contrast, she has
only recently joined the Internal Affairs Committee – as VicePresident. For her questions of internal security have priority.
And this also includes road safety in her view.
According to a Polish study, every tenth car accident
occurs at a pedestrian crossing. In 2012, more than 200 people died at zebra crossings in Poland. In a new white paper
drawn up by her party, pedestrians will in future have priority
over cars and cyclists. Bublewicz firmly believes a change in
the road traffic regulations will have a considerable improvement on pedestrian safety. “We finally want to create a regulation that has long since proved its worth in other European
countries.” ❯
Beata Bublewicz, Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee for more Safety in Road Traffic since
2009, campaigns for improved conditions on Polish roads through various ventures and initiatives.
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Beata Maria Bublewicz
Born:
26th February 1975 in Olsztyn, Poland
Marital status:single, one son
Profession:
Politician of the Civic Platform PO,
Member of the Polish Parliament
Career:
1993-2000 Head of the Representation of General Motors
Polska | Opel Polska in Olsztyn
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Here, the politician can be seen using a seat belt simulator to explain accident risks and encourage drivers to
wear a seat belt during a campaign in 2010.
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2002
Degree from the Institute for Applied Social
Sciences, University of Warsaw
2005
Publication of her book “Marian Bublewicz
– Memories”
2005
Entered the Polish Parliament as a Member of
Parliament for the Civic Platform PO representing the district of Olsztyn
Even a visit to a hospital room is one of the tasks of the
politician, as seen here in 2012 in the new wing of the
Voivodal Specialist Hospital in Olsztyn.
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At the weekend Beata likes to play a round of golf and
Member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs
and the Sports Committee
often does this with her son, who bears the two names
of his famous grandfather.
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Bublewicz has been in the Polish parliament for the
Civic Platform Platforma Obywatelska since 2005, and
since 2009 Chairwoman of the Committee for Road Safety
2007
Member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs
and Vice-President of the Sports Committee
is a member of various committees.
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Poland’s President Bronisław Komorowski talking to
boy scouts during a visit to the MP in her Olsztyn constituency in August 2013.
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Bublewicz, dressed in red, arrives to hear the results of
the first round of the early presidential elections in June
2010 being announced.
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Re-election to the Polish parliament
2011
Stands for the third time at the parliamentary
elections
Member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs
and Vice-President of the Committee for Internal
Affairs
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❯ As Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee
for Road Safety in Poland, Bublewicz also collaborates with
DEKRA Polska. The good technical condition of the vehicles
is one of the most important of a raft of measures in the UN
Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. “DEKRA ­Polska
is exemplary in its commitment by annually presenting the
DEKRA Road Safety Report that analyses the causes and consequences of road accidents in Europe. Moreover, DEKRA
organises free campaigns for young motorists to demonstrate
the influence that the condition of the vehicle has on a road
accident,” commends Bublewicz.
Although the hub of her professional activity is Warsaw, she still lives in Olsztyn. And here, too, the 38-year-old is
very active, even on the weekends. She plays golf with her son
Grzegorz Marian, meets friends or goes to the cinema. And
she is also continually involved in political work. For example, she regulates local matters in her constituency or holds a
political surgery in her office.
She even finds time to put pen to paper. In 2005 Bublewicz published a book about her father, the proceeds of which
go into a foundation. In February 2013 she announced the
launch of a unique building project in Derc near Olsztyn – “The
Independence Living Centre” for disabled persons injured in
road accidents in Poland. This, too, is her way of keeping the
memory of her father alive. And living through the loss has
seemed to give her the strength to find a balance between her
political duties and her private life: “It is sometimes very difficult, but it is possible,” she says.
❮ Katarzyna Tuszyńska
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Occupational safety in prefabricated house construction
As safe as houses!
In the risk assessment of the technical safety of its workplace the long
established prefabricated house building company Bien-Zenker relies on
DEKRA know-how.
The
husbanding of resources, environmentally friendly construction, the utilisation of healthy materials as well as low life cycle
and energy costs: Bien-Zenker AG has managed
to scoop a high-calibre award in the form of the
“certificate in gold” conferred by the German
Association for Sustainable Building (Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen – DGNB)
for its “Concept M” housing line. This also means
that the prefabricated house builder based in
Schlüchten in Hesse racked up a very special first:
Bien-Zenker is the first house manufacturer to
receive such a gold certification.
“Sustainable building is a very essential
criterion where living quality and the retention of
“With the help of the risk assessments
carried out by DEKRA we were able
to further increase the high quality
of our processes!”
Günter Baum, Chairman of the Management
Board, Bien-Zenker AG.
Contact
Michael Grüner
Health and Safety at Work Officer
DEKRA Automobil GmbH
Phone+49.69.4 20 83-3 70
Fax +49.69.4 20 83-4 00
E-mail [email protected]
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the value of a home as well as the comfort and
the well-being of the occupants are concerned,”
says Günter Baum, Chairman of the Management
Board of Bien-Zenker. Sustainability, however,
underpins the safety concept of the company for
its approximately 440 employees. Responsible for
achieving this is the Frankfurt branch of DEKRA
Automobil GmbH with its specialist department
Industry, Construction and Real Estate.
DEKRA expert Mario Slabon regularly
pays a personal visit to inspect the occupational
risks and to carry out worker training. His duties
also include recording noise measurements on
the factory floor, load-securing training, the
training of crane drivers as well as fork lift truck
instruction. Where there is a need to improve, the
DEKRA expert makes optimisation suggestions
and checks that they have been implemented
when he carries out his next inspection.
“All these measures mean that we go well
beyond the statutory stipulations,” stresses Jürgen
Sperzel, Technical Director at Bien-Zenker. Safety
in the workplace has the highest priority. The
employees appreciate this and it shows in the loyalty they have demonstrated to the company and
from which in turn the company, founded back in
1906, also profits. So, an ideally functioning cycle.
How seriously occupational safety is
taken at Bien-Zenker can be seen not just in the
standards so far achieved, but also in future plans.
For example, an integrated management system is
envisaged to ensure the quality of all the trades
on the building site as well as the certification
in compliance with “AMS Bau”, the professional
building association. The positive experience
so far means that DEKRA is bound to be a part
of the team.
❮ Matthias Gaul
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Jürgen Sperzel (left), Technical Director at Bien-Zenker, and
DEKRA engineer Mario Slabon discuss the safety concept
underpinning the work processes.
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In order to increase work safety, mobile platform ladders are
to be used for the installation of windows and doors in future.
Where the risk assessment is concerned, Bien-Zenker
leaves out no aspect of its work.
The plus energy house “Concept-M” was awarded the
“Certificate in Gold” from the DGNB for its sustainability.
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When escaping to the side, the dummy
reaches speeds of up to 240 km/h on the
twelve metre long test facility.
2
DEKRA engineer René Kölling (left) with
colleagues controls the demanding crash
test from the command cabin.
3
Klaus Kompass (left) is visibly impressed
by the facility demonstrated by Frank Leimbach (centre) and René Kölling (right) from
the DEKRA Technology Center.
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Test facility for pedestrian protection systems
Danger detected
In order to test and thus improve their systems designed to recognise
pedestrians on the road, BMW AG has called on the technical expertise
of the experts at the DEKRA Automobil Test Center in Klettwitz.
T
he dark-coloured BMW 3 series is
heading for the pedestrian at about 50 km/h.
About twenty metres before the collision the vehicle begins to brake. Too late? You might think so,
but, fractions of a second before the inevitable
impact, the person escapes – as if by magic – across
the road and the BMW simply rolls to a halt.
What happened? The person is a puppet,
a dummy that moves along a bridge-rail system
running over the road and that can take sideways
evasive action. Inside the vehicle is the latest technology on pre-emptive pedestrian protection that
warns the inattentive driver acoustically as well as
visually, and brakes automatically if he fails to react.
To ensure this evasive manoeuvre in the
final millisecond, the DEKRA engineers have to
measure beforehand with millimetre accuracy
the distances between car and dummy by laser or
D-GPS. This allows the bridge to carry out constant adjustments to the movement of the dummy
in reaction to the slightest deviation of the vehicle
as it approaches.
The facility at the DEKRA Automobil Test
Center (DATC) in Klettwitz is currently the only
one of its kind in Europe. Klaus Kompass, Head
of Vehicle Safety Development at BMW: “In the
development phase it is important to carry out
very many, and above all, reproducible tests on a
facility like this. It would be expensive and timeconsuming if the dummy and the car were damaged every time. Bearing these aspects in mind,
it was the efficiency of the facility and the short
equipping times that impressed me.”
The facility allows a multitude of pedestrian detection systems to be tested. The manufacturers employ radar scans, heat imaging or
conventional camera systems in their development projects. “Whereas virtually every manufac-
“The efficiency of this facility
has convinced me!”
Klaus Kompass, Head of Vehicle
Safety Development, BMW AG.
turer has a test stand for its own system, we can
offer identical test procedures without the need
for large-scale re-equipping to all the manufacturers,” says Frank Leimbach, Head of the DEKRA
Technology Center.
So far there has been no binding test procedure applicable to all systems. This is why in
2009 DEKRA teamed up with all German and
some Japanese vehicle manufacturers to create
a working group on advanced forward-looking
safety systems. The aim of the working group is
to standardise and harmonise the test procedures
in Europe.
Klaus Kompass has no doubts about the
urgency of this endeavour: “More than 600 pedestrians are killed every year on the road in Germany alone. If we can manage to prevent the death
of just one of these people, we would already have
achieved a great deal.”
❮ Alexander Föll
Contact
Jens König
Assistant Manager
DEKRA Technology Center
Phone +49.7 11.78 61-25 07
Fax +49.7 11.78 61-28 84
E-mail [email protected]
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Emission measurements from biogas installations
From grass to gas
In order to be able to work economically many farmers these days
place their faith in an ecological energy mix. DEKRA supports them
in the recording of emissions from biogas installations.
T
he piglets lie relaxed on their red heating blankets and gently doze away. The constant
temperature of 30 degrees Celsius makes them feel
like a “pig in clover”. The little pigs don’t care where
the warmth comes from, but for the farmer Olga
Maart the energy consumption is one of the greatest challenges in her pig breeding efforts. “The electricity costs have continually gone up over the past
few years. Without having an energy mix of biogas,
wind power and photovoltaic panels we would no
longer be able to compete,” says the 44-year-old
farmer. She manages to save 40,000 litres of heating oil annually just through the heat generated
by the biogas installation. “We can also use the
warmth to heat the flats in our holiday home in
Deichgraf and a wellness area,” adds Maart.
Yet these alternative energy sources do not
come cheap. For instance Maart invested around
one million euros in the biogas installation alone.
In order to keep the installation running, she
needs to buy in a third of her raw materials. The
other two thirds come from her own land in Nordstrand, the idyllic peninsula on the North Sea
Coast. Here the farmer mainly sows types of cereals that are rich in energy – like maize. In 2013
she turned to beet for the first time, a plant that
is meant to have almost the same effect. Other
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sources of energy are whole plant silage from the
sweet grasses of barley, wheat and rye and liquid manure. “We only use renewable raw materials in our installation, which means we obtain
the renewable raw materials bonus as well as the
manure bonus. This is the only way I can make the
installation pay,” explains Maart.
The Maart family farm is one of the pioneers in the use of biogas installations. The two
340 kilowatt motors have been running for eight
years now and produce both electricity and heat.
The electricity is exclusively fed into the EON
grid. It is also this energy provider that controls
the motors. If only a little electricity is required,
the company can turn the motors off. In the opinion of Olga Maart this also has disadvantages
since the frequent change in motor load increases
maintenance work. It also has an indirect influence on the installation emissions. If the motor is
incorrectly set due to the changing requirements,
it is no longer able to comply with the air purity
limit stipulations. ❯
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Using an energy mix of biogas, wind and
solar power, the Maart family in Nordstrand
generates electricity and heat to keep their
pig breeding activities competitive.
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❯ DEKRA regularly pays a visit to Nordstrand to check these. Technicians Stefan Knipp
and Sebastian Haack at the Bielefeld branch of the
Industry, Construction and Real Estate department have specialised in the monitoring of the
maximum limits of biogas installations. They are
out and about in the north testing installations
almost on a daily basis. “We concentrate on two
types of measurements. Firstly, those required for
the approval of the installation under the Federal
Emissions Protection Act. Secondly, since 2009
Contact
Patrick Zimmermann
Key Account Manager Environment & Bioenergy
DEKRA Automobil GmbH
Phone +49.3 45.5 23 59-6 50
Fax +49.3 45.5 23 59-6 99
E-mail [email protected]
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we have been carrying out measurements of the
formaldehyde content in compliance with the
Renewable Energies Act,” explains DEKRA expert
Stefan Knipp.
The two DEKRA men, who, the statutory
requirements insist, must work on site as a team,
take their measurements using a heated sampling
tube inserted in the measuring aperture behind
the installation’s catalytic converter. From there
they can direct the emissions into the measuring
vehicle equipped with a special device, the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, or FTIR
for short. “We also take a sample using an absorption solution which we send to our laboratory
in Stuttgart. The FTIR enables us to tell the customer straightaway on site whether the inspection
has been successful or not,” says Knipp. However,
the legally binding confirmation comes from the
laboratory.
DEKRA has set up additional special services catering for the approval, operation and legal
monitoring of biogas installations. “We can use
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At a constant 30°C the piglets must feel
like “pigs in clover”. In order to maintain
this temperature, Olga Maart relies on the
waste heat from the electricity generated
by biogas.
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DEKRA visits the Maart family’s farm annually to monitor the formaldehyde content
in the plant’s waste gas. The Renewable
Energy Act states that a limit value of
40 milligrams per cubic metre must be
observed.
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a modified heat imaging camera to detect if the
biogas installations are leaking gas. Also, we can
use the camera to carry out electrical inspections
of the control cabinets,” says Patrick Zimmermann,
Key Account Manager for bio-energy at DEKRA.
Olga Maart is happy with the results.
She has the confirmation that she can apply for
the formaldehyde bonus for her installation.
Although she cannot say how long the installation
will continue running, funding is assured for at
least the next twelve years.
❮ Ralf Johanning
To make the test results binding in law the
DEKRA expert takes a sample via absorption solution and sends it to the laboratory
in Stuttgart.
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As team colleagues, Stefan Knipp and
Sebastian Haack work hand in hand and
position a heated sample line behind the
catalytic converter of the plant.
“I have enormous trust in the competency of DEKRA’s employees!”
Olga Maart, farmer.
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Facts and Figures
City history:
In1596, King Sigismund III Wasa relocated his seat of residence
and thus made Warsaw the capital of Poland because Krakow, the
old capital city, was too far from Vilna, the capital of the union partner of Lithuania, also because he wanted to be closer to Sweden,
his hereditary kingdom.
Polish name: Warszawa
Population: approx. 1.7 million inhabitants
Surface area: approx. 517 km2
City coat of arms: Siren, a mermaid with shield and sword
Famous sons and daughters of the city:
■ Marie Skłodowska Curie: Physicist, chemist and Nobel
Prize Winner
■ Władysław Baroszewski: Resistance Fighter, historian
and politician
■ Samuel Goldwyn: Film producer and co-founder of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Opposite the granite castle, the glass wing of an
eagle gleams. The curved apartment tower “Zlota 44” in the
heart of Warsaw was designed by star architect Daniel Libeskind as a sign of liberty and new beginning and as a counterpoint to the ugly cultural palace with which Josef Stalin had
endowed the former People’s Republic of Poland.
Built in the nineteen fifties, this Soviet building is now
rubbing shoulders with many a witness to the market economy: the “Golden Terraces”, a shopping centre with undulating
glass roof, the five star hotel, International Continental, the
Warsaw Financial Centre and the Rondo 1 office tower. Every28
where these glass towers rise from the ground, workplaces for
young Poles who are driving their country forward powered
by the professional experience they have gleaned in the West.
The Libeskind building has been occupied since September and is now set to turn the busy centre into a hub of
urban living. The American architect, who spent the first
eleven years of his life in Poland, dreams of creating a “new
Manhattan”.
Other derelict building sites in the inner city await
their high-rise projects. However, new planning drafts come
and go. “All this change – will things never settle down?” groan
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City portrait of Warsaw
Constant change
on the Vistula
Hardly any capital city in Europe has changed as much in the past few
years as Warsaw. In fact, the only constant has been that very change!
the Warsaw inhabitants. Many plots of land are still burdened
with unresolved questions of property rights, a legacy of the
expropriation policy after the Second World War, and cannot,
therefore, be developed. German troops destroyed about 85
per cent of the building stock existing in Warsaw at that time.
The monument marking the uprising of the Jewish
ghetto in the northern part of the town centre commemorates
this dark chapter in history. It was also the monument before
which Willy Brandt knelt down in 1970. But even remembering seems to be in flux. Directly opposite and shining with a
blue shimmer stands a square glass building, a museum that
intends to document the thousand year history of the Jews in
Poland – and the cultural and social life of the Jews still living on the Vistula. Thanks to workshops, films and discussion
groups, the museum has been a forum of experience since its
opening in April 2013; the main multimedia exhibition is set
to finally open in the late spring of 2014.
Just a few paces away lies the old town, where the late
Middle-Age and Baroque patrician houses were completely
reconstructed after 1945. The market place is today seen as
the tourist heart of the city and one that beats to the rhythm
of international jazz groups in the summer. ❯
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❯ Visitors can catch sight of Warsaw’s largest concert
venue if they stand in near-by Castle Square and look eastwards across the Vistula. Football fans will recognise in the
bowl-like structure the national stadium in which the inaugural match of the European Football Championship was held in
2012. Just a few years before, Russians and Vietnamese could
be found selling trinkets and gadgets on this plot of land – a
successful transformation from “eyesore” to prestige project.
Praga, the part of the city on the eastern banks of the
Vistula, used to be the workers’ quarter. The former factories from the 19th century have not really been closed down
even today. It is here that Warsaw’s liveliest cultural scene
still buzzes. Yet, even the theatres, galleries, clubs and workshops have been subject to the rule of constant change. In
the former “Koneser” vodka factory, the current anarchistic
bohemian lifestyle has had to give way for the most part to
chic shops and lofts. However, Klementyna Bocheńska and
her gallery were allowed to stay. She likes to display oil paintings of young unknown artists and helps them to get a foothold in the market.
The nearby culture club “Chmury” no longer needs
advertising. The New York Times has since praised it as the
“Cloud” club. Co-owner, Łukasz Miłej, likes to have different
types of jazz playing throughout the evening. In the afternoon
table tennis is played in the concert room. One reason for this
is that fewer guests now patronise it since Praga is somewhat
clogged up because of the construction work for the “Metro”.
The price of upheaval.
The only exception to this never ending transformation seems to be the backyards of the old tenant blocks to
the east and west of the Vistula. Here stand lavishly decorated
“Kapliczkas”, shrines decorated with fresh flowers that are testament of the traditional piety of the Catholic city dwellers.
Traditional dishes, such as pierogi and the sour rye
flour soup can be found everywhere in Warsaw – even at the
inn “Under the Red Hog”; a building that was donated by the
former German Republic of Germany in the sixties under the
patronage of Erich Honecker. Today, photographs and paintings of Communist giants have been banished to the wall,
while Polish and international guests raise their glasses to the
next business deal – a scene that probably won’t be changing
any time soon.
❮ Jens Mattern
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The pointed Libeskind tower in the heart of Warsaw is
said to be the highest residential block in Europe.
With its trendy lights, the Palace of Culture and
­Science, architectural demonstration of Soviet might,
looks way cooler at night than it does during the day.
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The “Golden Terraces” have been a temptation to part
with cash since 2007. The shopping centre houses
around 200 shops and restaurants under its glass roof.
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The Sigismund Column in the Castle Square has stood
as a memory to King Sigismund III Wasa since 1644.
It was he who made Warsaw the capital of Poland.
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A “Kapliczka”, a shrine to honour Mary, in the backyard of an old tenant block, demonstrates the piety of
the Roman Catholic inhabitants.
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The national stadium was built for the European Championships in 2012 and its canopy roof construction makes
it equally suitable for football matches and concerts.
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The museum documenting the history of the Polish Jews
opened its doors punctually on 13th April 2013, the
70th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.
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An unsightly scratch on the front mud guard can happen quite easily. Thanks to DEKRA the settling of claims
for minor damage represents a minimum of work for
both insurer and vehicle owner.
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For the damage report DEKRA expert Rafał Machowski
diligently documents with his camera the damage on a
car that has been involved in an accident.
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Experts based at the 340 DEKRA inspection centres in
Poland will from now on receive the damage notification from policy holders of Gothaer and then pass them
on for processing.
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Claims settlement for an insurance company
Minor damage,
swift settlement
Since May 2013, Gothaer Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń S.A. has been
cooperating with DEKRA Polska in an effort to simplify claims settlements
for its customers in Poland.
A scratched fender, splintered headlight
glass – it’s not the end of the world, but it’s annoying just the same. However, the damage reported
by the claimant to the DEKRA Polska test centre
near Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in Poland is minor,
and minor damage should not be a cause for fuss.
And this is something that all Polish
motorists can rely on if they are insured by
­Gothaer Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń S.A. First of
all, the motorist reports the damage by email or
telephone to the Gothaer insurance company. If
the damage appears relatively minor, the contact
centre directs the claimant to the closest of the
340 DEKRA test centres spread across Poland.
Thanks to the tight-meshed network in place the
policyholder will never have far to go.
In the said small town near Warsaw, engineer Rafał Machowski verifies the chassis number
and the kilometrage. He takes several photos of
the damage the car has suffered. DEKRA man
Machowski also scans in vehicle documents, passport and the form listing the damage and mails
the data to his contact at the DEKRA centre in
Warsaw. Here, the quality and completeness of
the documentation is verified and then the information passed on to Gothaer which handles the
financial settlement.
This cooperation was launched as a pilot
project in several regions last May and has been so
successful that it went nationwide on 30th September, a hitherto unique partnership on the banks of
the river Vistula. And there is a growing need for
something like this. 18 million cars are now registered in Poland. The number of serious accidents
is falling, comfort on Poland’s roads is increasing
“In DEKRA we have a partner who enjoys
a good reputation on the Polish market!”
Adam Dwulecki, Member of the Board of Management, Gothaer Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń S.A.
– and with it the motorist is expecting more from
automotive service providers.
A feeling of satisfaction reigns at ­Gothaer
head office in Warsaw. “The transparent and
objective process is a great plus for our customers,” boasts Adam Dwulecki, Member of the Management Board in Poland. “Our experts need no
longer be present on site, but at the same time
we are protected from unjustified claims by the
independent DEKRA examiners.” Dwulecki sees
the potential in the partnership. In future Gothaer
also intends to cooperate with DEKRA Polska on
more complex damage claims.
❮ Jens Mattern
Contact
Mariusz Mankiewicz
Managing Director
DEKRA POLSKA Sp.z o.o.
Phone +48.22.57 73-6 16
Fax +48.22.57 73-6 36
E-mail [email protected]
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DEKRA staff in portrait
Setting the pace
Stefan
Knipp knows what he
wants. At DEKRA he has concentrated
on the measurement of biogas installations since the task was first introduced.
The environmental technician knew
from the outset that he wanted to focus
on this field. Knipp began as the second
man in the team at DEKRA Automobil
in Bielefeld in 2002 and has since worked
his way up to become project manager.
He now wants to transfer the success he
has had in his profession to his sporting
activities. Three years ago the 40-yearold took up running and in January 2013
completed his first half marathon. In
April he wants to enter the “Hermann
Race” from Detmold to Bielefeld. The 31
kilometres of rugged terrain is just the
preparation the family man needs for his
long-term aim: to compete in some of
the world’s famous marathons. His wish
list is a long one. Knipp intends to start
in Berlin in 2014 with London and New
York to follow. ❮
Whether as project manager for recording the emissions of biogas installations at
DEKRA or when practising sport in his free time: Stefan Knipp knows what he wants.
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