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Deutsche Post  Group —  Annual Report
Health and safety
Maintaining and improving the health of our employees
Our employees can only deliver rst-class services to our customers if they are motivated
and capable. erefore, we seek to maintain and improve the health and well-being of
our employees, primarily through prevention.
In the reporting year, we improved the quality of key performance indicators in all
units. e worldwide illness rate was . .
Many preventive measures taken
We also harmonised our reporting methods and aligned them to international standards
at Occupational Health & Safety. We now show all values regarding accidents on a
Group-wide basis. Due to altered calculation processes, we are unable to provide values
for the previous year.
We take many occupational safety measures to prevent accidents. In the reporting
year, pedestrian and driver safety training were just some of the initiatives carried out
in the  German branches of the Post - eCommerce - Parcel division. Moreover, to put
even greater emphasis on the issue, we issued a new Group-wide guideline on occupa-
tional safety and health protection.
Workplace accidents .
2015
Accident rate (number of accidents per , hours worked) 1 4.0
Working days lost per accident 1 15.6
Number of fatalities due to workplace accidents 2 6
1 Coverage: around  .
2 Of which as a result of trac accidents: .
Corporate responsibility
Focus on three action areas
As part of our corporate strategy we have made it our goal to be a benchmark company for
responsible business. Furthermore, we have codied responsibility in our Code of Con-
duct, which is guided by both the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and the United Nations Global Compact and adheres to recognised legal stand-
ards, including key anti-corruption laws and agreements. e Group also supports the
United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Our corporate responsibility activities
concentrate on three focus areas:
Responsible business practice: We co-ordinate the most important aspects and issues
relating to responsible corporate governance in a Group-wide network that serves as a
cross-divisional and cross-functional forum. rough on-going dialogue with our stake-
holders, we ensure that their expectations and requirements as regards social and environ-
mental issues are accounted for appropriately and that our business is aligned systemat-
ically with their interests. In the reporting year, we conducted a materiality analysis in
which we identied the issues most important to us as regards governance, sta and the
environment, set corresponding targets and established key performance indicators.
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Group Management Report — NON-FINANCIAL FIGURES — Employees — Health and safety — Corporate responsibility