secova 2022: Mastering challenges together

What does 2022 have in store for us at secova, and what has been outstanding in 2021? – At the start of the new year, we would like to take a brief look in the rear-view mirror and then immediately look ahead with a great deal of enthusiasm and optimism. 2021 was also a very challenging year for the world of work in many areas. Due to the pandemic, there were and still are numerous restrictions and regulations, some of which have serious consequences for everyday life. “Working safely” is more important than ever. Ensuring this for all employees despite remote working and working from home is an increasing challenge for many companies.

Our sam® EHS solution system, with its various functional modules that can be perfectly combined with one another, offers optimum support not only in these times. Whether at work, at home or on the move, all employees can receive and access all the information that is important to them. And you can do this both on the PC and with the sam® EHS Manager app almost anywhere with mobile devices.

The sam® qualification matrix was added last year. This means that companies always have an overview of all their employees’ skills. The internal potential of “knowledge” and “skills” thus becomes transparent. Based on this, each employee can then receive the training or qualification measure that is necessary or appropriate for them. In conjunction with the sam® instruction system, this function module offers the ideal combination of knowledge and occupational safety management.

The qualification matrix was presented for the first time at last year’s A&A 2021 – the world’s largest trade fair for occupational health and safety. This “big” A&A takes place every two years in October in Düsseldorf and could still be held as an in-person trade fair in 2021. We at secova were very pleased to be able to welcome numerous customers and interested parties there again. We would also like to see as many “real” trade fair encounters as possible again in 2022 – for example at the “small” A&A 2022 in Stuttgart.

The secova team was looking forward to numerous discussions at its stand at A&A 2021 in Düsseldorf.

Close, personal contact with our customers has always been very important to us at secova. Due to the pandemic, on-site visits and appointments were often not possible or only possible to a limited extent. We ourselves were also often working from home and only got to see our colleagues to a very limited extent. We had to transfer most of the ease and informality that characterizes us as secova to tele and digital communication channels. For 2022, secova hopes that we will all be able to meet as real people “live” again instead of via “Zoom”.

The numerous opportunities to get in touch with us have remained unrestricted. On the contrary: our service team has further improved the individual processes so that we can deal with your inquiries and requests even more quickly. Anything we cannot answer directly is immediately forwarded to the relevant experts in our professional ticket system. Our intensive commitment here is obviously also perceived by our customers: On the rating platform“ProvenExpert“, over 95 percent rated our customer service as “very good” – thank you very much!

However, optimizations and enhancements have not only been made in the areas of functionality and service. We have also introduced a number of structural adjustments internally and have now further intensified these at the start of the year. We had already appointed Johannes Türk-König as our Head of Sales in 2021 and are now appointing Sergej Pede as well. We are therefore dividing our sales department into two regions – Team South (Johannes) and Team North (Sergej). Our “Team Content” was newly formed (with Christoph Lulay as team leader), in which we combine the areas of editing, VR & design. We have also further expanded the “APPs” (TL Phillip Lulay) and “Product Management” (TL Roman Meyer) teams.

It is typical of secova that we discuss and develop these adaptations together in the teams. In the same way, all of our employees define the company’s direction and goals together from the outset at the annual strategy meeting. A high degree of independence and personal responsibility for the individual, but jointly defined and team-implemented goals – this is what characterizes working for us. And then leads to the company itself receiving another award at the turn of the year: The rating platform“kununu” awarded secova the title of “Top Company 2022” as one of the most popular employers in German-speaking countries. Is that one of the reasons we welcomed a dozen new colleagues last year?

In 2022, our “headquarters” in the Environ building will expand from the 1st to the 3rd floor

This is not the only reason why we at secova will be expanding our premises in 2022 – by adding an additional floor to our headquarters in the Environ building. In this way, we aim to further improve our already excellent working conditions. And thus create enough space for existing, but also numerous new jobs. Because our “Team secova” should and will continue to grow strongly. Interested in joining us and curious about what vacancies we have and who we are looking for? Then just have a look on our website under“Jobs“…

Making good things even better – we remain true to this approach. We would therefore like to further optimize the user properties of our holistic EHS solution system and implement numerous feature requests and additions. We will also push ahead with the expansion of our digital and mobile solutions (3D modeling, 360° videos, VR training, app enhancements/improvements). Our top priority remains to always offer our customers and interested parties top service. At the same time, we will not change the most important feature of sam® – despite all its functional diversity. And that is the ease of use of the software, because it will be as easy to use as an ATM in the future!