Company health management ensures ability to work and motivation

With our company health management, we want to maintain and improve the ability to work, effciency and motivation of our employees over the long term.

We support the employees in their health-conscious behaviour and design workplaces and organisational processes to meet the needs of health. With a large number of activities tailored to individual sites, company health management forms an important part of our corporate culture.

Our Fields of Action

1. Preventative occupational medicine
   In occupational medicine, mandatory check-ups are an important instrument for the early detection of health defects and for minimising the risk of vocational diseases and work-related health risks. Our internal company preventative medicine goes far beyond the statutory check-up requirements.
2. Company health promotion
   At almost all sites, measures intended to promote health, health days, health campaigns and thematic information events on subjects ranging from cancer prevention through nutritional advice to anti-smoking programmes as well as information on the prevention and treatment of back pain have become established.
3. Company integration management
   In 2009, severely handicapped employees accounted for 7.4% of the workforce. We are thus far above the German national average. In close cooperation with the relevant authorities and our representatives for severely handicapped persons, we create workplaces adapted for handicapped persons, thus fostering the integration of these employees.
4. Prevention of addiction
   issue that K+S also has to address. We have issued a ban on addictive drugs and implemented binding regulations on how to deal with those employees affected in the workplace.