Engineering

Management report on the Group
2.5 Management report on the Group Non-financial performance indicators
Personnel expense
in million €
9,169
2006/
2007
9,637 9,654
2007/
2008
2008/
2009
8,772
2009/
2010
Accidents at work
according to international definition
per 1 million hours worked
14.6
2007/
2008
11.4
2008/
2009
10.2
2009/
2010
2010/
2011
8.5
9,014
2010/
2011
Employees by region (Sept. 30)
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
96 | 97
Change
in %
Germany 84,999 85,097 81,229 71,072 69,122 (2.7)
Other EU 41,522 42,503 38,252 35,491 31,762 (10.5)
Americas 44,228 47,561 42,897 42,417 47,086 11.0
Asia/Pacific 14,890 17,881 18,481 21,544 24,742 14.8
Other countries 5,711 6,332 6,636 6,822 7,338 7.6
World 191,350 199,374 187,495 177,346 180,050 1.5
At €9.0 billion, personnel expense in 2010/2011 was 2.8% higher than the year before. The graphic on the
left shows our personnel expense over the past five years.
Apprenticeship training
In Germany ThyssenKrupp is training 4,239 apprentices in more than 55 occupations, most of them
industrial or technical. 1,312 young people started an apprenticeship with ThyssenKrupp in 2011. 170 fulltime
trainers and numerous training officers provide high-quality, practical training which resulted in 92% of
apprentices passing their final exams in the reporting year.
In addition to traditional apprentice training, integrated degree programs are now well established at
ThyssenKrupp. More than 70 such programs are currently available to our apprentices. We have also been
running the TOPSIM business management game for 20 years, in which several teams of apprentices take
over the management of a virtual company. The game enables them to acquire and strengthen a business
mindset and social skills.
Health and safety a priority
Our Groupwide “zero accidents” initiative is aimed at making working in our production operations and
offices even safer – and it is paying dividends. The accident rate in the reporting year fell by 17% compared
with the prior year to 8.5 accidents per 1 million hours worked. Accidents have decreased by 42% over the
past four years.
We provided management training for the first time in China in 2010/2011; a similar program is now being
prepared for Brazil. A new health and safety management manual provides valuable information on how
Group companies can provide even better protection from accidents for their employees and systematically
develop their health and safety programs.
In the future we intend to integrate our global health and safety activities more closely. To this end, standard
international healthcare structures and processes are being developed at several centers of competence
under the coordination of corporate headquarters. One example is the bowel cancer screening campaign,
which took place simultaneously at all German locations for the first time in 2011. Around 14,000
employees took part.