New department head prevention offers
At its meeting on October 16, 2014, Suva's Administrative Committee elected 46-year-old Edith Müller Loretz as the new Head of the Prevention Services Department. She succeeds Beat Arnet, who left Suva at the end of January 2014.
With Müller Loretz, a person who is very familiar with Suva is taking over the management of the prevention offers department. A resident of Kriens and mother of two children, she joined Suva in 1998 as campaign manager for snowsports. She had previously studied business administration at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. In 2011, Müller Loretz was promoted to Head of the Leisure Safety Division and from then on was responsible for implementing prevention measures in the non-occupational accident business in companies and among the general public. Edith Müller Loretz took up the position of head of department, which comprises the areas of occupational health management, leisure safety and safety products, on November 1, 2014. She replaces Beat Arnet, who left Suva at the end of January this year.
The Prevention Services department employs around 40 people. It is committed to safe leisure time and safe and healthy work with campaigns, prevention modules and individual advice. In doing so, it focuses on sports and activities with high accident costs and high injury potential.
