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Safety is paramount
Active commitment to health
Only employees who are healthy and feel good can fully perform their services. As an outdoor brand, VAUDE wants to create appropriate compensation for desk work, and this applies to all employees.
It is also our mission as a company to ensure that our employees can work in a safe environment and with safe machines, especially in logistics and production. The focus of our health management system is on prevention and our employees’ active involvement in their own health.
Many individual health promotion activities
At VAUDE, we aim to pursue a holistic health management approach, including healthy food, prevention, exercise and sports, as well as office equipment based on ergonomic principles.
To this end, many different individual measures have been implemented, although we do not have a systematic management approach thus far. Formulating and implementing such a management approach is one of the tasks we have set for ourselves in the coming years
After renovation we will have an organic cafeteria
To do justice to the growth of VAUDE and modernize the company's premises in Tettnang-Obereisenbach, a major renovation project has been running since 2012 and will last until mid-2015. It includes, among many other things, a cafeteria.
| GRI: | LA6 |
Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region and by gender
| GRI: | DMA Health and Safety |
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The food in the cafeteria will be made from organic ingredients, whereby VAUDE will be involved in the costs, to enable employees to eat a healthy lunch. Already, there is a daily choice of two hot meals as well as various salads at the VAUDE Café. Again, organic food is offered here
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Organic food, naturally
There are already organic meals available at Café VAUDE. In the new cafeteria menus will also consist of organic ingredients. |
Ergonomic modernization
Over the course of the renovation, all office workstations are being modernized, taking ergonomic and environmental issues into consideration. All employees in administration will receive height adjustable tables; the offices will be equipped with sound-absorbing ceilings and floors, and floor lamps will be outfitted with daylight sensors.
44,335 kilometers commuting by bike
As mountain sports brand, we are very keen that our employees stay active themselves. To promote this, VAUDE goes to great lengths to support this issue. Some examples: the "Mit dem Rad zur Arbeit " bike commuting campaign with eight e-bikes, cycling season opening events, classes on bike and gear maintenance, decentralized showers, covered bicycle parking and the like.
In order to motivate our staff for cycling and actively promote health care, we set an annual target of how many kilometers of bike commuting we are shooting for. In 2013, our goal was 45,000 kilometers. We just missed it reaching 44,335 kilometers - see "44,335 kilometers by bike to work"
Sports events in the VAUDE Academy
In addition, we offer the VAUDE Academy program with usually ten to 15 sports events per year, aimed at beginners and advanced students. Our staff can, for example, choose between mountain bike training, climbing instruction, snowshoeing or even trekking tours.
We offer swimming classes on an as-needed basis at our outdoor pool or encourage our employees to participate in the free weekly yoga class. Our boulder room is always available to climbers. Every two weeks, we offer the option of "Massage at Work", with a trained masseuse who comes specifically to Tettnang-Obereisenbach.
Overtime and how to avoid it is also an issue at VAUDE. In order to act preventively against the accumulation of overtime, we follow an approach that does not focus on only the employees’ presence at work but whether the employee achieves their goal.
Dedicated work safety committee at VAUDE
To ensure safety, there is an ASA work safety committee at VAUDE. The ASA is managed by our representative for Occupational Safety and Security, and is composed of colleagues from company management as well as from logistics, manufacturing, maintenance and administration. An independent firm, Anwander (an engineering firm for Occupational Safety and Fire Protection) also attends the quarterly ASA meetings.
Accident statistics based on clear rules and standards
We follow clear rules from the Berufsgenossenschaft für Handel und Waren for recording and disclosing accident statistics.
During the reporting period, we recorded no deaths or lost days caused by occupational illnesses. Overall, five employees, four male and one female were injured. Accident reports, however, are created at VAUDE only when sick leave is more than three days. Therefore, minor injuries are not covered. Per 200,000 hours worked, 1.58 accidents happened at our company. This is an accident rate of 1.58.
The injuries relate only to injuries occurring during work; commuting accidents are not considered. In 2013 no commuting accidents were reported, according to accident reports of the trade association.
Goal: reduce absenteeism
The five injured persons had a total of 270 lost days, which correlates to a “lost day rate” of 85.07, as measured by the total hours worked of all employees, considered over the whole year 2013. This implies that per 200,000 hours worked, 85.07 lost days were due to accidents. The day of the accident is counted as the first day of absence with us.
Listed in the table below, injury rate is calculated by the number of accidents, namely five, compared to the total hours of all employees, amounting in 2013, to a total of 634,767.12 hours.
Our absenteeism (all absences caused by illness, including accidents at work or occupational illnesses) was at 5.35 percent in 2013. Our aim is to reduce this number.
Occupational health management starting in 2014
One of the measures that should lead to lower numbers is the introduction of occupational health management. Starting in 2014, VAUDE will be offering its employees a workplace health promotion in collaboration with toMotion, a health management specialist.
We want to continue to help employees improve their health, and feel fit and well. The offer is valid for the first 100 employees and consists of informational sessions including:
- stress screening (heart rate variability)
- health screening with nutrition tips
- training of VAUDE health coaches
Avoiding overtime is anchored within corporate objectives
The avoidance or minimization of overtime is one of our corporate objectives. The process of achieving goals, and the monitoring and control thereof is anchored in management and is subjected to an annual review - see "Sustainable business is worth it"
Emails do not have to be answered on weekends
To achieve these objectives, all measures and possible target figures are agreed upon. This is problematic for overtime, however, because working schedules and working hours are not recorded for all employees.
In particular, management level employees work on a trust-based system. Therefore, there were no specific figures for overtime. Rules such as ‘no email requirements on weekends’ contribute to the ability to avoid overtime.
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