60,000 thyssenkrupp employees take part in a pedometer challenge as part of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work today, on April 28. From Auckland in Australia, Tokyo in Japan to Duisburg in Germany and Chicago in the US, over 4,500 teams in 64 countries got involved under the motto “We move the world”. The thyssenkrupp Group stages a global campaign each year to raise awareness of workplace safety and health issues.
“We all know that we don’t get enough exercise at work, or the wrong kind of exercise. The aim of the pedometer challenge is to encourage our employees to think about how they can stay healthy and include exercise in their day-to-day routines. We are delighted by the number of people taking part throughout our international group,” says Oliver Burkhard, Chief Human Resources Officer at thyssenkrupp AG. Musculoskeletal disorders and back complaints are among the five most common workplace health problems at thyssenkrupp. That’s why this year’s campaign “We move the world” is all about getting people moving. Everyone who registered for a team was provided with a pedometer. In Nordrhein-Westfalen somewhat 9,000 employees in over 730 teams are taking part, among them employees of thyssenkrupp Presta in Mühlheim, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg and thyssenkrupp AG in Essen.
The health and safety of employees have top priority at thyssenkrupp. In the coming years the aim is to continuously reduce the accident frequency rate by 10 per cent each year. In the current fiscal year the accident frequency rate is at an all-time low of 3.6 per 1 million hours worked.
thyssenkrupp is a diversified industrial group with traditional strengths in materials and a growing share of capital goods and services businesses. Around 155,000 employees in nearly 80 countries work with passion and technological expertise to develop high-quality products and intelligent industrial processes and services for sustainable progress. Their skills and commitment are the basis of our success. In fiscal year 2014/2015 thyssenkrupp generated sales of around €43 billion.
Together with our customers we develop competitive solutions for the challenges of the future in the areas Mechanical, Plant and Materials. With our engineering expertise we enable our customers to gain an edge in the global market and manufacture innovative products in a cost- and resource-friendly way. For us, technical progress and innovations, allied with the combined strength of the Group, are key factors enabling us to meet current and future customer and market requirements around the world, grow on the markets of the future, and generate strong and stable earnings, cash flows and value growth.