About D&F

Our Vision and mission

D&F Group B.V. has grown from a company with only 2 employees to one with almost 30 since 1993. D&F helps organisations to analyse, reduce and control safety risks. After all, a risk can lead to an incident, and an incident can lead to an accident.

About 159,000 people die every year in Europe as a result of occupational diseases, and a further 5,500 people die as a result of accidents at work. And that’s why D&F concentrates all its energy and resources on improving safety, since everyone has the right to a safe working environment.

This is how we accomplish a little bit more of our mission every day:

ZERO industrial accidents!

Trends

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are today’s international trends.
Legislation and regulations are becoming increasingly complex. National regulations are shifting towards European and international legislation.
The claims culture in the USA is becoming more and more evident here. There’s increasing awareness of all kinds of liability, such as product liability and employers’ liability.
Safety is one of the government’s key objectives, including more personal responsibility for employers and employees alike.
To get back to our core activities: support services for the environment, health, safety, marketing, IT and maintenance are outsourced to agencies specialising in these areas.
Insurance companies are giving these matters more attention. They are becoming more cost-conscious and have started examining the causes of accidents and injuries.
There’s more attention for the human element of safety too, such as a safety culture and the resulting safety-related behaviour.

Strategy

The strategy that D&F uses to create its market is an entire range of products and services at three levels: technical safety (machinery and process safety), safety management, and safety culture and safety-related behaviour.

D&F has created a distinctive style on the market by:

compiling specific easy-reference reports that can be applied directly in practice
clear agreements and effective project management
a central marketing and sales policy
centrally-controlled product development supported by KneX teams!
effective investments in our internal organisation
spending at least 10% of our available time on product development
working in a matrix organisation with regional offices and horizontal knowledge teams (KneX teams!)
giving a lot of attention to a shared D&F culture and mentality