Safety
The health and safety of our employees is very important to E.ON. Therefore, we reestablished the Occupational Health and Safety department within the Corporate Responsibility (CR) division at Global Unit in 2007. Our objective is to pool our skills in this area in order to use them more effectively. The department harmonizes and controls all safety-related processes throughout the group.
In 2007, we also approved a groupwide health and safety strategy in order to integrate occupational safety into our employee's daily working life. The goal is to establish a safety culture throughout the group.
We support the fitness and well-being of our employees through various measures promoting health. To ensure the long-term employability, we are looking for ways to keep older employees at work longer and to enable us to continue making use of their knowledge.
Our goal as far as occupational safety and healthcare are concerned is to be the best company in the industry in all the countries in which we operate and we are heading in the right direction. Our workplaces are already among the safest in the energy industry. In comparison to our regional competitors, our regional units have a significantly lower accident rate. In 2007, the number of accidents within the E.ON Group fell by another 25 percent.
Occupational Safety
As our motto "Zero Accidents" indicates, we are convinced that all accidents are preventable and that maintaining the physical and mental health of our employees is essential.
That is why occupational safety is a top priority at E.ON. Our minimum standards for occupational health and safety were made mandatory for all market and business units in 2006. In 2008, these standards will be summarized in a groupwide guideline. In addition, the E.ON Board of Management also approved a groupwide health and safety strategy in 2007 in order to drive this process forward. The objective is to make employees even more aware of this important topic and to integrate safety aspects into business activities even more intensively.We are well on our way towards establishing a safety culture for the group. However, much remains to be done. Our goal is to become an energy industry leader in terms of occupational safety throughout the group.