Our new seminar on “Formulating Instructions in an Interesting and Effective Way – my Role as an Executive” trains supervisors to communicate operating instructions in a comprehensible manner and to assess whether employees have understood and can implement them.
Work safety has the highest priority
Our objective is to protect our employees against workrelated dangers and preserve their health through preventative measures. It is our goal to even further reduce the – compared with other industrial companies – very low number of accidents.
When doing his work, each individual employee has to assume responsibility for safety – his own and that of his colleagues. Our managers have an exemplary function.
Accidents at work remained at low level
In 2011, we had to record 979 injuries and 189 accidents at work with working hours lost at our sites. The average number of working hours lost per accident at work was 22.1 calendar days. The key figure “accidents at work per one million hours worked” was 7,5 in 2011. In 2011 we introduced a new work safety reporting. The new standard supplies accident key figures that are comparable across the Group and contributes to the better management of work safety measures and the exchange of best practices.
This means certain changes in the key figures. Accidents at work with hours lost will, for example, now be reported as soon as an employee can no longer appear at work on the day after an accident. Previously, these were only reported in the event of more than three days of absence from work. We cannot therefore provide figures that are comparable with last year.
