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Health & Safety

At Siemens we are committed to create a healthy and safe work environment for our people and to sustainably support their health and performance.

EHS policy

Strengthening resilience through people’s well-being

Fostering people well-being is our contribution to an improved ability of our company to cope with incremental change and sudden disruptions. By positioning organizational resilience as a landmark for orientation, we enlarge the scope by fostering not only physical, but also mental health and not only physical, but also psychological safety.

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Transforming the Everyday

The world of work is dynamically changing, as are the demands and needs regarding Health and Safety. Adapting and re-designing our work systems is a continuous task requiring the involvement, engagement and participation of all our people. Our ambition is to maintain a work environment that supports personal growth and optimizes well-being. This ambition extends beyond the prevention of incidents and diseases. And transforms the everyday of our approach to Health and Safety: Based on reliable management systems, internal monitoring, and controls to mitigate health and safety risks effectively, Health and Safety management at Siemens aims to facilitate participation, support learning and guide adaptation.

A different world – a different approach

Maintaining health, safety and well-being is a joint responsibility of management and employees. This responsibility extends beyond providing workplaces in accordance with all applicable norms, standards and requirements. Siemens is a trailblazer of digitalization, venturing into the unknown. New technologies and the emerging “New Normal” of flexible, virtual and mobile workplace provide opportunities but also place different demands on employees - with consequences for health and safety. Health and Safety management has to support employees in leveraging the opportunities and mastering these demands.

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Our progressive approach to Health & Safety does not only focus on preventing unintended events and outcomes, but rather determines “how work works best” to shape work environments that enable optimal well-being of our people. Therefore, we place close attention on the “work-as-done” i.e. the conditions, the design and set-up of work from a people experience perspective. The guiding principles of our approach to health, safety and well-being are: “People are the solution” and “A healthy and safe environment enables a healthy and safe behavior”.