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A proactive health and safety effort
We invest in the health and safety of our workforce and we employ a Group-wide
system that is closely tied to risk management.  e system includes, for example, our
Corporate Health Award, with which we recognise exemplary health initiatives within
the Group each year. In , targeted programmes allowed us to help improve the
health of our workforce, from early disease detection to stress prevention. At .  (pre-
vious year: . ) we again managed to keep the illness rate in Germany at a low level.
 e increase compared with the previous year corresponds to the general development
in the country, when the age structure e ect is taken into consideration.
In the area of occupational safety we implement Group-wide tra c safety measures,
which help to raise awareness amongst employees about dangers and to prevent
accidents. In March , we renewed our commitment to the European Road Safety
Charter, reinforcing our devotion to this cause.
Our corporate health management system received awards again this year: the Euro-
pean Commission and the  Bundesverband (German association of company health
insurance funds) presented us with the German Corporate Health Award and the special
Mental Health award.  e German-language business newspaper Handelsblatt and the
market research institute EuPD Research gave us the Corporate Health Award for inte-
grating our corporate health management system into all of our principles and processes.
Certi cation and testing organisation  Rheinland renewed the   :  cer ti-
 cation of our occupational health and safety organisation’s quality management system
yet again in the reporting year.
Training – an investment in our future
By training and qualifying young people, we not only secure our future cadres of
specialists, we also make a key contribution to society. In , we hired approximately
, trainees and students in Germany. We o ered employment contracts to around
  of eligible trainees. We foster the top   of our roughly , trainees in Germany
in our top trainee programme.  ey are o ered special seminars and permanent con-
tracts upon successfully completing the programme. Perspektive Gelb is our programme
to give young people, whose career prospects seem bleak, a chance at a traineeship. In
, we took on nearly   of the  participants in the class of .
. Illness rate1)
2010
7.4 %
2009
6.9 %
 All organisational units in Germany.
. Occupational safety1)
2009 20104)
Number of workplace accidents2) 13,0143) 17,283
Accident rate (number of accidents per , employees per year) 71 96
Number of working days lost due to accidents (calendar days) 275,3513) 376,873
Working days lost per accident 21.2 21.8
Number of fatalities due to workplace accidents 1 0
 Includes employees of Deutsche Post .  Accidents when at least one working day is lost; including accidents on the way
to and from work.  Adjusted.  As at  February  since accidents may also be reported after the balance sheet date.
. Traineeships, Deutsche Post DHL,
worldwide
1)
 Number of trainees, annual average: ,.
53.1 % Courier, express
and postal services
specialists
11.4 % Other traineeships
15.2 % Forwarding and logis -
ticsservices specialists
9.9 % Berufsakademie
students
10.4 % Warehousing logistics
specialists
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