The economy would have needed 3G months ago

Frankfurt The high demand for ventilators and protective clothing in the corona pandemic has pushed the workforce at the medical and safety technology company Drägerwerk to the limit for months – especially when employees were absent due to corona disease.

With this situation in mind, the CEO and shareholder of the listed family company Drägerwerk calls for more freedom for companies to determine the hygiene and safety measures they need themselves.

“The economy would have needed the 3G rule months ago,” he says in an interview with the Handelsblatt. Many companies would probably have introduced them if they had left them, the company boss is convinced. “Then fewer employees would have fallen ill, and overall better protection of the population would have been achieved,” says Dräger, who is the fifth generation of the family to run the company. At Drägerwerk, 90 percent of employees are vaccinated.