Brochure on sustainability - Klasmann Deilmann

Involvement
It is important to Klasmann-Deilmann that its employees play an active
role in shaping the company, both on an ongoing and an occasional
basis. One opportunity to do this is by taking part in the employee
survey which was held for the first time in 2007 and repeated in 2010.
The aims of the 2010 survey were:
· to find out how things actually are in the company from the
staff’s point of view;
· to obtain input on what employees think, expect and want,
and translate this into action that improves situations within
the company;
· to look at how opinions in the workforce have changed
compared with 2007;
· to get as many employees as possible involved in corporate
processes and improvements.
The company suggestion scheme is, unlike the one-off staff surveys,
an instrument that can be used at all times. Its aim is, by providing
appropriate recognition, to encourage active involvement and initiative
on the part of all Klasmann-Deilmann employees with the purpose of
obtaining ideas for improving cost-effectiveness, cooperation, and
workplace health and safety. The scheme was introduced in 1999 and
receives an average of 80 suggestions a year.
Corporate health management
Health is an important personal asset. Indeed, healthy employees are
the foundation of a healthy company. Klasmann-Deilmann is pursuing
a number of workplace health and safety projects and has a very
active health management system, both of which are instrumental in
keeping the staff in good health. The aim of corporate health management
is to maintain, improve or restore the health of the workforce and,
to this end, it is integrated into all processes within the company.
The fact that there is an ever-increasing focus on employee health,
leading to the establishment of a systematic corporate health management
system, is chiefly the result of:
· the more extensive legal requirements concerning workplace
health and safety;
· the progressive raising of the retirement age;
· the increasing levels of psychological strain at work
(on top of physical stress).
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