Bei tesa gelten die Occupational Safety Guidelines nach dem internationalen Standard OHSAS 18001.
Providing employees with opportunities to obtain further qualifications and training is a high priority
One important tool we use to improve performance, support employees, and develop our staff for new duties is ongoing feedback, including feedback for management. Since 2005, tesa has offered its managers the opportunity to review their own behavior from a critical standpoint through a communications process carried out together with the team: the tesa management feedback process. Using anonymous questionnaires, which was developed jointly by employee representatives and the human resources department, compares managers’ and employees’ views of themselves and others. Training sessions and specific skills training are other venues we offer to give our employees further qualifications.
To ensure that comprehensive information is provided and that the company communicates extensively with the employees, media such as the employee magazine inside:tesa and the tesa intranet were created as part of an across-the-board communications strategy that aims to promote an unmistakable international corporate culture.
Awards as a top employer
All over the world, employee integration and personnel development are among the most important factors contributing to our success. Because of its excellent ratings in this area, the tesa plant in Offenburg was named one of the top employers of 2008 by the magazine “Junge Karriere,” published by the Handelsblatt publishing group, and by the consulting firm CRF. This award rates companies in the categories of compensation, market leadership, work-life balance, job security, development opportunities, and internal climate and culture. Providing important data, facts, and a specific points rating, the ratings give recent graduates and young professionals guidance for their career development.
In 2008, the company also won a comparable title in Switzerland, where Swiss multimedia business magazine “Cash” chose tesa Bandfix AG as one of that country’s top employers. The outstanding rating, in which the wholly owned subsidiary of tesa SE ranked sixth out of 81 companies right off the bat, was based on information from the company’s own employees. They gave their employer top marks in an extensive survey on organizational structures, corporate culture, management behavior, goals, performance incentives, and knowledge transfer.
Since 2004, tesa has been supporting the “Fair Company” initiative
This initiative distinguishes companies that offer graduates good career opportunities rather than employing them as long-term interns, and thus using them as inexpensive labor in positions beneath their qualification levels.
In March 2007, the company also established an internal complaints office serving all employees of tesa SE and its subsidiaries. It offers assistance to all employees and applicants who feel they are being or have been discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion, creed, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
Occupational safety is a high priority at the company
All around the world, tesa is subject to our Occupational Safety Guidelines, which are aligned to the international OHSAS 18001 standard. Regular employee training on conduct that is conducive to safety and health, prevention of explosions and fires, fire extinguishing drills, detailed operating procedures for all production facilities, and targeted employee training have ensured that the number of days of work missed due to occupational accidents subject to mandatory reporting fell once again in 2008. Since 2005, tesa has achieved an overall reduction averaging 11 percent worldwide.
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