Health and safety at work

Our employees should not only be safe at work, they should stay healthy. Therefore, we focus on a holistic health management, ranging from organic food to occupational health care.

Encouraging physical activity is an important component

As a company that outfits its customers for sporting activities, the topics of fitness and health are naturally an important concern at our own facilities in Tettnang-Obereisenbach.

Naturally, we ensure that machines and the premises in our production facilities and in logistics are safe. VAUDE has a work safety committee (ASA) that is headed by the Representative for Occupational Safety and Security.

Holistic Health Management

We understand health and safety very far-reaching: the project of building a resource-based and indicator-based health management system has been started. We are ergonomically modernizing our offices. The VAUDE Café, which offers several lunches and a salad buffet daily, is certified organic. And the canteen, which we set up in the wake of a major renovation, will be certified organic, so a healthy, inexpensive lunch is available to employees.
These many activities are continuously being expanded and have been converted into a holistic health management system since October 2014 - see „VAUDE in Tettnang".

We support sports and recreation for our employees with a variety of offerings from the VAUDE Academy. Our successful mobility concept also provides motivation for bike commuting, despite working in an area surrounded by rolling hills - see also „53.672 km of bike commuting “. Starting in 2014, we are offering a workplace health promotion plan for the first 100 employees to sign up. Our holistic approach to health and safety of our employees is detailed in the section - See „Safety is paramount".

More Sport

Promoting sports and recreation is one component of the holistic health management approach at VAUDE.

Occupational safety in the supply chain

We feel responsible for the safety of employees in the production facilities of our supply chain. We primarily have facilities in China and Vietnam, where there are strict fire regulations. Also, there are only limited chemicals used in sewing production. Ergonomics, however, is an important issue of occupational safety.

The „Fair Wear Foundation" (FWF) uses audits to monitor our producers regarding health and safety in the workplace. If there are deficiencies in this respect, they are quickly resolved - see „Save Production“.