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DEUTSCHE BAHN AG
Sustainability
a Sustainability is an important foundation for future viability
a Further development of corporate culture gets underway
a Climate protection program and “green” products are further developed
Sustainability helps secure the future. Particularly in the trans-
port sector, sustainability is an important competitive advantage.
Our climate-protection goal thus includes the entire DB Group
and all of its modes of transport – rail, road, waterways and in
the air. We have developed service offerings that allow us to
meet the constantly growing need for mobility and transport in
an environmentally friendly way that conserves resources – in
Germany, Europe and worldwide. Our personnel management
system helps us design attractive, family-friendly workplaces
that promote staff diversity. In view of the increasing shortage
of skilled workers due to the demographic development, it is
even more important for us to ensure that our employees remain
motivated and employable over the long term. We are laying
the groundwork for this today so that we can remain successful
in the market and preserve jobs in the future. And we are taking
responsibility for the society in which we – our employees, our
customers and our business partners – want to live tomorrow.
We are also actively fulfilling this responsibility when it comes
to our internationalization process. On the basis of the Group’s
ethical principles (Code of Conduct), which define our fundamental
ethical values and convictions, we have participated in the “UN
Global Compact” since 2009: a voluntary economic initiative by
the United Nations that aims to make globalization more socially
and ecologically responsible. As a result, in November 2010 we
were one of the world’s first railway companies to sign the “Declaration
on Sustainable mobility&Transport” by the International
Union of railways (UIC), which is supported by the UN Global
Compact and by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
We provide additional information on the topic of sustainability
in our A Sustainability Report [1], which most recently
appeared in 2009. The report coherently summarizes environmental,
personnel-related and social issues and comprehensively
details our contributions to a sustainable society as a major
provider of mobility and logistics services and as one of Germany’s
largest employers, trainers and contractors.
| [1] A www.db.de/sustainability
eMpLoYeeS
Our employees and managers are central on our path to becoming
the world’s leading provider of mobility and logistics services.
Efficient personnel management helps them fulfill their tasks,
while simultaneously setting the right areas of focus for the
future. This year, along with 92 other companies, DB Group
qualified for the “Germany’s Top Employer 2010” seal of approval;
with 26 other companies, it also earned the more specialized
“Top Engineering Employer 2010” seal of approval. Among other
things, the rating considered development opportunities, innovation
management, job security, market position and image,
corporate culture, compensation, and work-life balance.
The number of employees is calculated on the basis of fulltime
employee (FTE) positions to permit better comparability
within DB Group and over time. Figures for part-time employees
are converted into figures for equivalent full-time employees in
accordance with their share of the regular annual working time.
The number of employees at the end of the year under
review was 3,427 (as of December 31, 2009: 3,549 employees).
As part of this number of employees ten trainees were also
employed (previous year: eight trainees). The annual average
number of DB AG employees was 3,495 (previous year:
3,589 employees).
environMent
Protecting the environment and the earth’s climate is a fixed
component of our A corporate policy [2]. During the year
under review, we further developed our climate protection
program and our “green” products. Three strategic directions
determine our climate-protection activities:
a Aiding climate protection through high energy efficiency
in operations and production
a reducing dependency on fossil fuels and increasing the
proportion of renewable energy in the traction current mix
a Using green products to reduce the burden on the environment
| [2] A www.db.de/environment