Berufsgenossenschaft Rohstoffe und chemische Industrie (BG RCI)

The Employer's Liability Insurance Association for the Mining, Chemical, Leather, Paper Making, Quarrying and Sugar Industries merged on January 1, 2010 to form the new Employer's Liability Insurance Association for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industries (BG RCI). Around 35,000 companies with around 1.3 million insured persons are members of this new employers' liability insurance association. The BG RCI is headquartered in Heidelberg. In addition to Heidelberg, the Bochum, Mainz and Langenhagen sites also take on important central main administrative tasks. District offices in Bochum, Gera, Heidelberg, Cologne, Langenhagen, Mainz and Nuremberg as well as the branch offices in Berlin, Bonn, Dresden, Halle, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Saarbrücken ensure nationwide support for member companies and insured persons. The most important concern of the participating BGs was to actively shape the reform of the statutory accident insurance system under their own steam. The Act on the Modernization of Accident Insurance (UVMG), which recently came into force, envisages reducing the number of industrial accident insurance institutions to nine. The merger will create an efficient solidarity community that will be able to meet the economic and social challenges of the future. The aim is to streamline administrative structures and contain costs by exploiting synergies. A large employers' liability insurance association made up of members from different sectors is a guarantee of high-performance prevention work with stable and favorable premiums.