Occupational health and safety
Our Occupational Health Management (OHM) aims to create a safe and healthy working environment, raise all employees' awareness of their own health, and motivate them to take responsibility for their own health-related behavior in their professional and private lives.
In Germany, occupational health management (OHM) works in three action areas:
- Company integration management (CIM) for employees with long-term illnesses
- Division-specific OHM with structured management approach for plants and departments
- Occupational health promotion with offerings for all employees
We also promote wide-ranging measures to promote employee health and wellbeing at our international sites. In addition to the physical aspects, the topic of mental health is continuously growing in importance. Findings from neuroscience show that mindfulness-based stress reduction can protect against the effects of chronic stress and improve wellbeing as well as teamwork. Mindfulness is likewise of great importance for the safety culture.
GLOBAL SAFETY INITIATIVE: Xact
We address the topic of occupational safety with our global safety initiative Xact. It pursues the goal of gradually lifting the safety culture of LANXESS to a higher level. Starting with top management, all employees are expected to work together to improve safety in the Group. We are doing this because we firmly believe that all industrial accidents are avoidable.
© LANXESSAs a specific target for occupational safety, we aim to reduce the lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR, known as MAQ [“accidents per million hours worked”] in Germany) by more than half by the end of 2025 compared to the reference year of 2016 (LTIFR 2.0). The work of the Xact team is focused on stabilizing and fostering a positive culture of safety and greater alignment toward behavior-based safety.
Involvement of service providers
We also want to reach an improved shared understanding of occupational safety with service providers who perform technical services for us, as well as including them in our safety culture. For instance, our partners must demonstrate that they maintain their own safety management system and have carried out all safety training that is required of all employees who work for us. Regardless of this, we provide personal safety briefings for employees of our partner companies.
